The first presidential election after the Dobbs decision has proven at least two things: First, women are not automatons and our ability to discern important issues shouldn’t be underestimated. Second, aborting our nation’s future — our children — is not the galvanizing issue Democrats and the legacy media insisted.
A headline at The Guardian on Election Day proclaimed, “If Harris wins, it’s because of abortion.” The verdict: spectacular failure.
Democrats went all in on abortion, spending $570 million on abortion-focused TV advertising alone for federal races during the general election, according to data from AdImpact, versus Republicans’ $37 million on abortion-focused TV ads. Abortion was Democrats’ single biggest issue.
On a debate stage where President Trump had to face off against not only his opponent Kamala Harris but moderators whose left-wing bias was out of control, Trump did what he has done better than anyone since 2016 — calling out Democrats as the true extremists in their support for unlimited abortion and even infanticide of babies born alive: “You should ask, will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?” Harris never did answer.
Contrary to pundits’ predictions of the largest gender gap in American electoral history, Trump performed better among women voters than he did in 2020. Overexcited commentators should have listened to Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report, who wrote, “The current gender gap looks less like a ‘historic’ one and more like the one we saw in 2016. . . . Harris isn’t doing any better with women than Clinton or than Biden did in 2020.” Across the nation, cities and suburbs alike shifted toward Republicans. […]
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