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| 2024 US elections takeaways: how female voters broke for Harris and Trump | 2024 US elections takeaways: how female voters broke for Harris and Trump |
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| Preliminary exit polling shows Harris won women, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors | Preliminary exit polling shows Harris won women, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors |
| Gender had promised to be one of the biggest stories of the 2024 election. With abortion one of voters’ top issues, Donald Trump’s well-documented history of misogyny and a female presidential candidate of color on the ballot, Democrats banked on women showing up in force to defeat him. But Trump’s stunning victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote dashed those hopes – and scrambled the narrative around how gender, race and other markers of identity informed Americans’ votes. | Gender had promised to be one of the biggest stories of the 2024 election. With abortion one of voters’ top issues, Donald Trump’s well-documented history of misogyny and a female presidential candidate of color on the ballot, Democrats banked on women showing up in force to defeat him. But Trump’s stunning victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote dashed those hopes – and scrambled the narrative around how gender, race and other markers of identity informed Americans’ votes. |
| Based on available exit polling, which remains preliminary, here are five early takeaways on how gender shaped the 2024 elections. | Based on available exit polling, which remains preliminary, here are five early takeaways on how gender shaped the 2024 elections. |
| 1. Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins | 1. Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins |
| Women did indeed show up to support Kamala Harris, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors. While Hillary Clinton won women by 13 points in 2016 and Joe Biden by 15 in 2020, Harris secured them by just 10 points, CNN found. | Women did indeed show up to support Kamala Harris, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors. While Hillary Clinton won women by 13 points in 2016 and Joe Biden by 15 in 2020, Harris secured them by just 10 points, CNN found. |
| 2. White women are still voting for the Republican candidate | 2. White women are still voting for the Republican candidate |
| Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996. On Tuesday, they once again went for Trump – just as they did in 2016 and 2020. But Harris made inroads with the group; she lost them by only 5 points, according to CNN. (In 2020, they broke for Trump by 11.) More surprisingly, Trump’s lead among white men also shrank, from 23 points in 2020 to 20 in 2024. | Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996. On Tuesday, they once again went for Trump – just as they did in 2016 and 2020. But Harris made inroads with the group; she lost them by only 5 points, according to CNN. (In 2020, they broke for Trump by 11.) More surprisingly, Trump’s lead among white men also shrank, from 23 points in 2020 to 20 in 2024. |
| 3. Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020 | 3. Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020 |
| The Trump campaign leaned into targeting young men, as the former president publicly palled around with male YouTubers and podcasters, such as Joe Rogan, who make little space for women. This effort paid off: exit polling indicates that there was a canyon-wide 16-point gender gap between young men and women, which is an increase from 2020. While women between the ages of 18 and 29 preferred Harris 58% to 40%, their male peers chose Trump 56% to 42%. However, compared to his last run, Trump did better with both young men (41% of them voted for him four years ago) and young women (33% in 2020). | The Trump campaign leaned into targeting young men, as the former president publicly palled around with male YouTubers and podcasters, such as Joe Rogan, who make little space for women. This effort paid off: exit polling indicates that there was a canyon-wide 16-point gender gap between young men and women, which is an increase from 2020. While women between the ages of 18 and 29 preferred Harris 58% to 40%, their male peers chose Trump 56% to 42%. However, compared to his last run, Trump did better with both young men (41% of them voted for him four years ago) and young women (33% in 2020). |
| 4. Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men | 4. Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men |
| Latino men, in particular, veered hard to the right. In 2016, Clinton won Latino men by 31 points; by 2020, their support for Democrats had cooled somewhat, as Biden won them by 23 points. On Tuesday, Trump won this group handily, by 10 points, according to exit polling performed for the Washington Post and other outlets. Meanwhile, Harris won Latina women by 24 points, a victory that pales in comparison to Clinton’s 44-point lead in 2024. | Latino men, in particular, veered hard to the right. In 2016, Clinton won Latino men by 31 points; by 2020, their support for Democrats had cooled somewhat, as Biden won them by 23 points. On Tuesday, Trump won this group handily, by 10 points, according to exit polling performed for the Washington Post and other outlets. Meanwhile, Harris won Latina women by 24 points, a victory that pales in comparison to Clinton’s 44-point lead in 2024. |
| 5. Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters | 5. Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters |
| Long the Democrats’ most stalwart supporters, Black women are still the backbone of the Democratic party. Harris won them by 85 points – a bigger lead than any other gendered and racial group measured by CNN. Apart from the contest for president, Delaware and Maryland both elected Black women, Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks, to the Senate – making the next Senate the first one in which two Black women will simultaneously serve together. | |
| Read more of the Guardian’s 2024 US election coverage | Read more of the Guardian’s 2024 US election coverage |
| Democrats ask: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’ | Democrats ask: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’ |
| How Trump won the presidency – in maps | How Trump won the presidency – in maps |
| ‘Goodbye, America’: celebrities react to Trump win | ‘Goodbye, America’: celebrities react to Trump win |
| Jon Stewart: ‘This is not the end’ | Jon Stewart: ‘This is not the end’ |
| With Trump re-elected, this is what’s at stake | With Trump re-elected, this is what’s at stake |
| Democrats ask: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’ | Democrats ask: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’ |
| How Trump won the presidency – in maps | How Trump won the presidency – in maps |
| ‘Goodbye, America’: celebrities react to Trump win | ‘Goodbye, America’: celebrities react to Trump win |
| Jon Stewart: ‘This is not the end’ | Jon Stewart: ‘This is not the end’ |
| With Trump re-elected, this is what’s at stake | With Trump re-elected, this is what’s at stake |