Trump's campaign plays up masculinity to make 2024 election 'men vs. women': report
Donald Trump's campaign is "playing up" issues like crime to appeal to more male voters and turn the 2024 election into a "men vs. women" contest, an Axios reporter claimed Wednesday.
Speaking to MSNBC, Axios co-founder Jim Vandehei said that with ballot initiatives for reproductive health in states around the country, Trump's campaign has given up attempting to appeal to female voters and opted for appearing more "manly" instead.
"If you look at the last off-year election, if you look at some of these special elections, abortion has been a very powerful voter for Democrats," said Vandehei.
That's when he revealed Trump's people, "In some ways ... boil this election down to men versus women. They believe they're going to lose a chunk of women who might have voted for them because of the abortion topic."
Instead of working to change their policies to appeal to more women, Trump is trying to "play up crime and, kind of, masculinity in a lot of the rhetoric he uses because they're seeing some movement of Black men and Hispanic men away from [President Joe] Biden," Vandehei continued.
He went on to say that over the years talking to Trump, the ex-president has never wanted "to deal with or even think much about" reproductive health. "But he just wants to kick it down to the states," he said.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many conservative states have moved to pass some of the most restrictive bans in the country. In Texas, for example, a mother was forced to risk her life and came near to death before a hospital would allow for a life-saving abortion. She now appears in a campaign ad for Biden.
Florida's six-week ban took effect on May 1, and the issue is also on the general election ballot. It requires a super-majority of the voters (60%) to legalize the procedure, reported NBC News.
"You start to get down to a six-week ban, then suddenly there probably is a political reality ... maybe a state like Florida that probably isn't that much in play or wasn't that much in play suddenly could be if you have a segment of voters who are so fired up about a topic," Vandehei closed.
See the interview below or at the link here.
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