According to recent reports, President-elect Donald Trump received a massive shift in support from young women in the 2024 presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party had expected a massive turnout among Gen Z women. However, this voting bloc did not turn out as expected, playing a role in Trump’s landslide victory.
President-elect Donald Trump received approximately forty percent of the votes from women under the age of 30 years old, according to findings from exit polling. Furthermore, CNN reported that Harris had an eight-point lead with female voters. However, this figure is nearly half what Joe Biden attained in the 2020 election.
Cornell University professor Sabrina Karim commented on these statistics, “I think there were high expectations going into the election about how women would vote.” She added, “But it is always important to remember that women are not a monolithic group,” further noted, “their concerns are multi-faceted.” Many pundits have concluded that the 2024 election was decided on important issues such as immigration and the economy, instead of social issues such as abortion, which many thought would drive the female vote.
The American Tribune recently reported on the disbelief from co-hosts on ABC’s “The View” that more women didn’t turn out for Vice President Harris. Co-host Sunny Hostin repeatedly blamed “uneducated white women” for the results of the election. “I think [Trump’s victory] had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum on cultural resentment in this country,” she said during a recent segment.
Hostin proceeded to slam “uneducated white women” for the way in which they voted this election, stating, “Black women tried to save this country again, last night… what we do not have is white women, who voted about 52 percent for Donald Trump — uneducated white women is my understanding. You have Latino men actually, voting more for him.”
She asked a guest on the panel, “So why do you think uneducated white women voting against their reproductive health freedoms, and why do you think Latino men voted in favor of someone who is going to deport a majority of his community.” However, co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin fired back at Hostin, calling out her derogatory language. “I don’t think white women like being called uneducated white women,” Griffin said. “But when you put people in these boxes, I think that’s a takeaway from this race.”
Watch the incident on “The View” below:
The American Tribune also reported on CNN receiving a major wake up call after the election, as nearly all of the mainstream media was entirely wrong with its forecasts and opinions of what Americans were concerned about. Republican pundit Scott Jennings told a panel on the network after Trump won, “I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pour over this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political information complex. We’ve been sitting around it for the last couple of weeks, and the story that was portrayed was not true.”
He continued, “We were told Puerto Rico was going to change the election. Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, voters, women lying to their husbands. Before that, it was 10 walls in the camo hats. Night after night after night. We were told all these things and gimmicks were going to somehow push Harrison over the line, and we were just ignoring the fundamentals, inflation.”
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