The partisan gender gap is not new, but its extremity under Trump is directly attributable to Trump's personality, character & behavior towards women, all of which is unique to Trump rather than something a normal Republican would face. Self-inflicted own-goal.https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1131566853032173569 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Republicans were -19 with women in the 2018 midterms. What race was Trump running in again there?
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra
One, look at the trend in House races: +1 in 2010, -4 in 2014, -10 in 2016, -19 in 2018. Trump's arrival on the scene had a significant impact. Two, isolate white women in the exits & you see the trend powerfully. Romney, eg, won white women by +14, largest margin since 1984.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
"But for Trump being nominated and elected as a Republican and Republicans in Congress fully backing him for two years and thus being seen as virtually the same in the eyes of women voters, this would not be happening" is not much of a point.
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra @baseballcrank
Put differently, I took your tweet -- as I take most of your "Trump is bad for the party" tweets -- to be an effort at creating daylight between him and the GOP that does not, in any practical way, exist anymore.
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Replying to @craigcalcaterra
You are ignoring the entire point, which is that this is the result of the Trump nomination & would have been avoidable w/any other nominee. I think a different future R leader could have a different impact, yes. Whole history of US politics suggests that.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I get that that's what you're saying. I'm asking you if, perhaps, things might be different for non-Trump Republicans if they had tried, even a little bit, to do anything other than get into lockstep with Trump. Instead, they have willingly and eagerly made the GOP Trump's party.
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Of course, I don't grant your premises, but that's another day's argument. The simple reality is that the GOP had no good options once Trump won the nomination.
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