Per usual, Donald Trump is setting new lows on the campaign trail, reports the New York Times:
“What Trump is doing has never been done before: He is losing college-educated white women,” said Stuart Stevens, Mr. Romney’s chief strategist in 2012 and a critic of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
Republican strategists generally agree that a GOP candidate has to win 90 percent of Republican voters overall to win the White House. As of late July, Trump was pulling around 72 percent of GOP women altogether, compared to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush winning 93 percent of Republican women and John McCain's 89 percent share. Bottom line, there aren’t enough male Republicans to make up for Trump's growing deficit with female Republicans. And his standing with GOP women has dropped by 13 points since the conventions in polls from the NYT and CBS News.
Perhaps this is all a big misunderstanding—does Donnie even know women can vote? Turns out you can't attack a female reporter (Megyn Kelly) for reporting and a grieving mother (Ghazala Khan) for grieving and make death threats against the first female presidential nominee who’s kicking your ass in the polls—and still get as many women as you'll need to win.
“For people like me, who are Republican but reasonable and still have our brains attached, it’s hard to see Trump as a reasonable, sane Republican,” said Dina Vela, a project manager in San Antonio who said she had always voted Republican and remained wary of Hillary Clinton. But to her own surprise, she has started visiting Mrs. Clinton’s campaign website and plans to vote for her. [...]
“I just don’t trust him,” said Carol Hillenbrand, a New York resident who said she had voted Republican in the last two presidential elections. A Clinton skeptic, she is prepared to vote for Gary Johnson, who is running as a Libertarian.