excuse me, a return to the happy days of Daddy Knows Best.
Politico interviewed more than two dozen women who support Trump — elected Republican officials and political activists — and while many wouldn’t condone his more controversial comments, almost all saw a Trump different from the one presented on television screens nationwide.
Many of the women pointed to
Trump’s successful and popular children as the measure of his character. Some said the presumptive nominee reminded them of their own fathers or husbands, and others said they saw Trump in themselves. Several rejected the notion that gender should have anything to do with the way they choose a president.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/women-for-donald-trump-224088From the Washington Post, an article finding that most former female tea-partiers support Trump:
Trump’s calls to “Make America Great Again,” then, don’t just find appeal among angry white men, but also angry white women who feel that, culturally and economically, the United States is turning into a country they no longer recognize. ... “nostalgia voters,” pointing to evidence that Trump backers are disproportionately drawn from Americans, for example, who believe that since the 1950s, American culture and life has mostly changed for the worse.
Many GOP women may be willing to overlook Trump’s derogatory statements about women because they believe he is the only candidate who is capable of keeping Americans safe. (Some examples demonstrating racist and xenophobic attitudes follow without actually saying so.) ... many tea party women at the grass roots share this disillusionment with the Republican Party. Most tea party women believe Republican leaders don’t share their policy positions.
Trump’s appeal to some Republican women may also lie in his departure from the conservative economic positions long endorsed by GOP leaders. In my analysis of national survey data from the Public Religion Research Institute, I found that a sizable chunk of Republican women, 50 percent, support raising taxes on those individuals earning more than $250,000, as do 43 percent of women who identify with the tea party.
Republican women are likely to find Trump’s vigorous defense of Social Security appealing as well. Women generally support entitlement programs more than men and this is true among Republicans, ...
Entitlement programs are even popular with everyday Americans who identify as tea partyers, despite almost uniform support among tea party organizations for major entitlement reform or even the eventual dissolution of such programs
Of course, many conservative women do not and will not embrace Trump. However, Trump’s willingness to take on the Republican establishment while pushing an anti-immigration agenda has secured him the support of a plurality of Republican women voters. If he becomes the nominee, women will be a key part of the reason.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/women-for-donald-trump-Btw, the House GOP caucus will be losing 3 of its few women (23!), one primaried, two retiring,
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