A historic gender gap is emerging ahead of the election and will likely decide if Trump or Harris wins
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If voters don’t “get this election right,” she added, “your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women, will become collateral damage to your rage.” Michelle Obama campaigned with Kamala Harris in Michigan on October 26 with remarks aimed at men in an urgent appeal to support reproductive rights. Conversely, Trump has long sold himself as a champion for the US economy, claiming that under his leadership it was the strongest “in the history of America.” Men and women alike volunteer that the economy and inflation are the most important issues this year, though men rank it higher, at 34 percent compared with 26 percent for women, according to the USA Today/Suffolk survey. In a USA Today/Suffolk University poll of Latino voters in the swing state of Arizona, women supported Harris by 68 percent to 28 percent, while men backed Trump by a much narrower margin of 48 percent to 46 percent. The USA Today/Suffolk poll of Latino voters showed women supporting Harris by 39 points while men backed Trump by six points.