KENNEDY: The women in Trump's life are sounding the alarm over a looming crisis. It may cost him the election
By Kennedy
Daily Mail
Nov 1, 2024
At a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, your friendly neighborhood garbage-man wearing a bright orange reflective vest said: 'Whether the women like it or not, I am going to protect them.'
Donald Trump's got a lady problem: Most women are siding with Kamala Harris.
And in the final days of this impossibly close race, even as the former president takes a slight lead in the national polls for the first time ever, you'd think he'd shift his pitch to the chicks with the yips.
Nope.
At a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, your friendly neighborhood garbage-man wearing a bright orange reflective vest said: 'Whether the women like it or not, I am going to protect them.'
Geez, Donald. Can you soften it a smidge?
Rather than shoring up the shaky female half of the electorate, he's gone and juiced his boy base with some of RFK Jr.'s leftover testosterone.
Case in point, that big, blustery Madison Square Garden rally last weekend where Trump trotted out Hulk Hogan (that was retro cheeky at the RNC in July, but in late-October it feels a bit freaky).
Couldn't they have tapped gushing granddaughter Kai Trump for a New York moment? Where was the lovable grandpa we all swooned over post-assassination attempt at that Milwaukee convention?
Instead, we got an insult comic and some random sausage swingers to call Kamala the 'anti-Christ'.
That sent podcaster queen Megyn Kelly into a megynecological tailspin.
'It was too bro-tastic… Do they have no women advising their campaign?' she asked.
Well, actually, they do. The whole she-bang is helmed by Trump's de facto campaign manager Susie Wiles. And in 2016, it was Kellyanne Conway who steered him to victory. The problem: when The Donald sets his mind on something, even a coven of witches can't break the spell.
But the gender gap is real. A recent CBS News poll showed that, while Trump does have a double-digit advantage among men, he is underwater with women by a staggering 12 points. Clearly, he is leaning too much into the Old Spice crowd.
If Donny wants to recapture the hearts of these fleeing females, he better grab them by the… issues.
Former Trump lady-rival Nikki Haley went on Fox News this week and offered some unsolicited advice: 'This is not the time to get overly masculine with this bromance thing they've got going. 53 percent of the electorate are women. Women will vote. They care about how they're being talked to and they care about the issues!'
Case in point, that big, blustery Madison Square Garden rally last weekend where Trump trotted out Hulk Hogan (that was retro cheeky at the RNC in July, but in late-October it feels a bit freaky).
Last month, a grassroots pro-Harris group started putting Post-it notes in women's restrooms and on tampon boxes on store shelves across the country urging the gals to secretly vote for Harris.
'Your husband/wife/partner/family can't see or control your vote. Remember this on November 5,' one of them read.
It's not exactly a screaming display of bold feminism (and a Post-it was certainly no way for Jack Berger to break up with Carrie Bradshaw!) but – as every man knows – a little effort can go a long way with the XX-chromosome set.
Former Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (who has gone full Never-Trumper) claims there's an army of closeted Commie-la voters out there, who are all too eager to make 'herstory' by secretly cancelling out their husbands' Trump votes.
But while Barb may be barking up the wrong ballot box, Michelle Obama's vociferous brand of Girl Power certainly resonated with rallygoers in Michigan last weekend.
Pleading with the 'fellas' in the room, she boomed: 'Before you cast your votes ask yourself what side of history do you want to be on?'
This Sister Act may prove to be a formidable force if Team Trump lets them run wild without a response.
Perhaps it's time for a little pillow talk.
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