Trump Risks Losing Suburban Women Over Abortion (WSJ)

[dalton99a]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/abortion-poll-trump-swing-state-voters-2024-election-3e12f57c

https://archive.ph/giWo0

Trump Risks Losing Suburban Women Over Abortion
WSJ poll shows the issue is make-or-break for many of the swing-state voters who decided the last two elections and could again in 2024
By Catherine Lucey in Waukesha, Wis. and Ken Thomas in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
April 12, 2024 9:00 pm ET

Abortion is the most powerful issue driving suburban women who could decide the presidential election. Now President Biden is trying to harness that energy, while Donald Trump is looking to redirect it.

A recent Wall Street Journal poll of seven battleground states found that 39% of suburban women cite abortion as a make-or-break issue for their vote—making it by far the most motivating issue for the group. Nearly three-quarters of them say the procedure should be legal all or most of the time, and a majority thinks Trump’s policies are too restrictive.

Abortion has been top of mind for voters since the 2022 Supreme Court decision eliminating federal protections for the procedure, which unfurled a messy patchwork of state laws across the country.

That spotlight intensified in the past week, as Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, said the issue should be left to the states but has taken murky or conflicting positions on some hot-button proposals. Then Arizona’s highest court revived a Civil-War era ban on most abortions, heightening the stakes in a swing state where voters will likely cast ballots in November on a measure that would legalize abortion until viability.

Those moves are reverberating in the suburban areas where women helped deliver the White House to Trump in 2016 and swung it to Biden in 2020.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Risks"???

I can't see suburban women telling Trump, "Here's my vote and here's my uterus."

[apnu]

2. 'Risks'?! Has. Past tense.

Trump is dead to women now. Ask the women in your life.

[mucifer]

3. You mean "suburban housewives"? That is what trump calls them.

[bearsfootball516]

4. "Risks" is a bit past tense here

Suburban women have been switching Democratic since 2017, and ending Roe accelerated it.

[moose65]

5. He's already lost them

He lost many of them over the course of his presidency by being a total pig. Now he is losing the rest of them.

This is a dynamic that I don't think is explored much: women spend their entire lives fending off men like Trump. Women know a misogynistic asshole when they see one.