Tag: Republican Women Voters

The Forgotten Women Who are Supporting Trump

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Kay Hymowitz, Fox News – November 5, 2016

One of the strangest ironies of this strangest of campaigns is that, if America does elect its first woman president, it will be Donald Trump, not Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will have played the crucial role. As if to confirm the most fevered feminist images of predatory male sexuality, Trump has managed to offend some of the most loyal Republican women, from senators, to local organizers, to rank and file. He now lags about 20 points behind Clinton among women voters.

Why White Women Voted for Donald Trump

Posted on November 30, 2016December 6, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Madeline Farber, Fortune – November 30, 2016

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has made many sexist and misogynistic comments both before and during his campaign. But a whopping 42% of women still showed their support for him on Nov. 8. What gives?

Why White Women Continue to Back the GOP

Posted on November 14, 2016November 26, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic – November 14, 2016

The voters have largely supported Republican candidates for years, which underscores the complicated nature of their political interests.

Women Aren’t Responsible for Hillary Clinton’s Defeat

Posted on November 13, 2016November 26, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Clare Foran, The Atlantic – November 13, 2016

Women failed Hillary Clinton—and none more so than white women. That idea has congealed into conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the election. Vanity Fair published an article titled: “Why Hillary Clinton Couldn’t Win Over Female Voters” while Time ran a story headlined: “Why So Many Women Abandoned Hillary Clinton.” Slate declared: “White Women Sold Out the Sisterhood and the World by Voting for Trump.” Samantha Bee had harsh words for white women, too. “A majority of white women, faced with the historic choice between the first female president, and a vial of weaponized testosterone said, ‘I’ll take Option B. I just don’t like her,’” she said, scathingly, in an episode of Full Frontal. The accusation leveled at women voters is clear: They didn’t just betray the woman who tried to shatter the ultimate glass ceiling, they also failed each other.

Republican Women Who Opposed Trump Quietly Plan a Comeback

Posted on November 11, 2016November 26, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Danielle Paquette, Washington Post – November 11, 2016

Lim is changing the name of her group to Republican Women for America. So far, she said, about 75 women have agreed to run chapters across the country. This week, they’ll process what happened. Next week, Lim said, they’ll discuss way to organize and serve as Republican checks against Trump.

Republican Women Who Opposed Trump Quietly Plan a Comeback

Posted on November 11, 2016November 27, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post – November, 11 2016

Jennifer Pierotti Lim quietly planned her own rejection of Trump’s rise: A dinner for conservative women who feel left behind. “I’m getting all these calls, texts and emails,” she said. “Everyone is saying, ‘Okay, what are we doing next?” Lim, 31, the director of health policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce, had never voted for a Democrat until Tuesday.

The Women Who Helped Donald Trump to Victory

Posted on November 10, 2016November 26, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times – November 10, 2016

Debbie Biro became a Republican to vote for Donald J. Trump. A lifelong Democrat, Ms. Biro, 57, is a churchgoing single mother who practices yoga and does not eat meat. She works in the office at the Crayola Crayons factory near here, and she can pinpoint her “turning point” — the moment she became convinced that Mr. Trump was “a strong leader, and he’ll get things done.”

The Women Who Helped Donald Trump to Victory

Posted on November 10, 2016November 27, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times – November 10, 2016

As America dissects the results of Tuesday’s election, one trend stands out: Tens of thousands of women — 53 percent of all white female voters, according to exit polls — chose Mr. Trump, playing a crucial role in his victory. In interviews here in the Lehigh Valley — a bellwether region in a swing state that helped elect Mr. Trump — and around the country, female supporters said theirs was a vote for Mr. Trump and not against Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is a Symptom — Not the Disease: The GOP’s Problem with Women

Posted on November 6, 2016November 27, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Carrie Sheffield, Salon – November 6, 2016

Though there is a chance Donald Trump could win, it appears women will be the firewall keeping him from the Oval Office. As a conservative activist who has spent years trying to reconcile women’s rights and right-leaning policies, I am appalled by how Trump has destroyed the GOP’s social capital with women.

The Forgotten Women Who are Supporting Trump

Posted on November 5, 2016December 4, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Kay Hymowitz, Fox News – November 5, 2016

Yes, college-educated women are overwhelmingly for Clinton; but women without college degrees are sticking with the Republican nominee. They may be less enthusiastic than they were in 2012, when they overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney, and they are far less gung-ho than the almost two-thirds of their male counterparts in the Trump camp. Still, while the polls vary widely, Trump runs as high as 27 points ahead among white women without a college degree, higher than Clinton’s 23-point advantage among college-educated women.

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