Thread by @FinancialTimes

Polls suggest that this election could result in the widest gender gap on record:

🙋‍♂️ 50% of men are projected to support Donald Trump.
🙋‍♀️ 35% of women are projected to support him.

Here’s why: on.ft.com/3mO20ua #Election2020

Donald Trump had lost a significant amount of support among moderate Republican women and those who were conservative-leaning but registered as independent, according to Lorna Romero, a Republican consultant ft.com/content/419376… #Election2020

In all presidential elections since 1980, the gender gap has ranged between four and 11 points, but if the #Election2020 polls are correct, we can expect a 15 point gap this year ft.com/content/419376…

While an equal number of women and men broke for Jimmy Carter in 1976, a gap began to open up in subsequent elections, due in part to the women’s rights movement and the Democrats supporting the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion ft.com/content/419376…
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Trump has been losing ground among non-college educated white women as well as college-educated women.

‘They’re just done with his behaviour’ — Mike Mikus, a Democratic strategist in the Pittsburgh suburbs ft.com/content/419376…
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So why is Trump a more appealing presidential candidate to men than women? ft.com/content/419376… #Election2020

Both candidates will hope they’ve closed the gender gap in their favour though — if they wish to win the election ft.com/content/419376… #Election2020