CNN panelist Ashley Allison pondered Wednesday why a majority of white women voted for President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Allison said Democrats need to ask themselves why white women have a pattern of supporting Trump over Harris or former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who lost to him in the 2016 election. She pointed out that many suspected that the voter bloc would come out in droves for Harris after the overturning of Roe v. Wade given that they widely supported Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.
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“I’m just gonna say it, and I know I’m about to get a lot of hate on Twitter for saying this, but it’s not just working class people, it’s a conversation we need to have with white women,” Allison said. “Like, what is happening? And for Hillary Clinton, 50% of white women voted for Donald Trump, in this year, 57% voted. And I think there was this belief that white women would come over to Kamala Harris because of Roe, because they did do that in 2020, but it wasn’t at the presidential level, it was at the Senate and House races and governors races.”
A substantial percentage of white women casted their ballots for Trump over Harris, with an NBC News exit poll finding 52% of this voter bloc supporting the president-elect. An overwhelming majority, 62%, of white women without college degrees backed Trump, while 59% of those with degrees voted for Harris, according to The Washington Post.
Harris won the general women vote 53% to 45%, according to the NBC News exit poll. Non-white women largely voted for the vice president over Trump, as 92% of black women and 61% of Latino women supported Harris.
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Harris made significant inroads among women ahead of the 2024 election, marking a widening gender gap between herself and Trump as the then-Republican nominee made large gains with men.
Trump secured victory among white women 52% to 43% against Clinton in 2016, according to a CNN exit poll. Clinton won all women by a 54% to 41% margin.
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