Furthermore, due to the fact that Harris’s popularity was on the rise, a second attempt to kill Trump, which took place on his golf property in West Palm Beach only a few days later, did not even come close to making a difference.
JD Vance, the Ohio senator who served as Trump’s running mate and is now the Vice President-elect, was subjected to a series of statements that were not well received, in which he targeted female Democrats. This caused the Trump campaign to experience more agony.
In a particularly scathing interview that took place in 2021, he referred to Harris and other women who do not have children of their own as “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives.”
In point of fact, a gender gap established itself as a prominent characteristic of the race in 2024. The role that Trump played in helping to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022,
Which would remove the constitutional right to an abortion and return the choice on related legislation to the states, has proved to be extremely unpopular with female voters.
