Trump Is Losing Educated GOP Women—and Splitting Up Families Along the Way

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As the election ticks down to the wire, there’s a glaring disadvantage staring the Trump campaign in the face—one that is an explicit slap to his daughter, Ivanka, a Wharton Business School graduate and mother of three who has so often attempted to soften her father’s image and portray him as a champion of equality in the workplace.

For months, polls have shown that Donald Trump will require a white supermajority to offset his historic deficits among African-Americans and Latinos in order to secure even a narrow victory in November. It’s now becoming clear that Trump isn’t hitting the numbers he needs—and that one demographic is standing in the way of the plan. “The main factor behind [Trump’s] underperformance among white voters,” according to a Monmouth poll conducted over the summer, “is his lack of support among white women with a college degree.”

Educated women, it appears, are defecting in droves from the GOP, and the numbers are stark.
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“Any Republican left who still thinks voting for Trump is a good idea, just ask yourself: ‘If you had a daughter, the things that he has said to female journalists, if he said those exact things to your daughter, could you still vote for him?’” - Politico

Educated you say, defecting from Donald and the GOP. Yeah, I can see why!

[Adrahil]

1. A friend of mine....

...just told her Trumpster parents that she will not be visiting for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year becuase she cannot respect them if they vote for Trump.

It's tearing her up, but she feels very strongly about it.

[ffr]

2. She's not alone. I'm finding I have lost respect for some friends too.

They've fallen under the spell of RW TV & radio, saying mean hateful things about PBO and democrats of every sort. Can't put those words back in, once they're out in the open. Shameful. If they could just hear themselves.

She might draw comfort and support from knowing there are perhaps millions of others like her going through the same thing.

[Adrahil]

5. I dumped one "friend"....

but fortunately, I do not have to deal with that. None of my close friends would dream of voting for Donnie and the Deplorables.

[grossproffit]

3. That's horrible. Your friend is a true patriot. Something Trump supporters know nothing about.

Our countries future is at risk. This isn't McCain or Romney. Trump is a white nationalist and his majority of supporters are white supremacists.

I feel so badly for your friend. It must be awful learning that your parents aren't who you thought they were. At least they raised a great daughter.

[Adrahil]

4. She does love this country, but...

... as she told her parents, Trump behaves in a way that they taught her was not only unacceptable, but (and she used this word) deplorable.

I have to say it's times like these that I am glad I do not have to worry about those conflicts. I loved my parents, but they were suckers for this kind of BS.

[bettyellen]

6. There was a report out the same is happening on every football team- owners and white players

Overwhelmingly for Trump, black players breaking 90% or more for Hillary. To the point where mentioning Trump is verboten in locker rooms.

[Cakes488]

7. Everyone that I know personally that supports Trashpot is a racist

and that is just a fact jack