Is the Gen Z Gender Gap Less Than People Say?

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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With the 2024 election season set to wrap up in just a couple of weeks, we look at the politics of an important demographic: young men.

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios.
0:06.5	I'm Brian Lehrer.
0:08.0	This is my daily politics podcast.
0:10.7	It's Tuesday, October 22.
0:14.9	You probably know by now about Donald Trump campaigning hard on notions of traditional
0:20.6	masculinity, right, to spread the
0:23.2	gender gap wide with women so skeptical of him and hope to attract even more men than he is losing
0:30.8	women. Or as ABC News put it recently, the Republican nominee is amping up his hyper-masculent tone and support of traditional
0:40.0	gender roles, a reflection of the surgical campaign within a campaign for the votes of men.
0:46.5	How unsettled is it? Well, ABC quotes the well-known right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk saying,
0:51.2	quote, if you are a man in this country and you don't vote for Donald Trump,
0:55.7	you're not a man.
0:57.5	And some of you may have heard Trump's instantly infamous ode to the golfer Arnold Palmer
1:02.8	over the weekend when he was campaigning in Pennsylvania.
1:06.7	Arnold Palmer was all man.
1:08.8	And I say that in all due respect to women and I love women.
1:13.0	But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough.
1:24.0	Strong and tough. Trump in Pennsylvania and what makes a man a man and I spared you some of you know
1:30.5	the end of that clip where he actually praised Palmer as a real man for the size of his anatomy
1:36.5	this is what it's come to and it's no surprise to you by now I'm sure on his willingness to be
1:43.2	both gross and retrograde, which is what really made
1:46.5	the news about that clip. But here's what might surprise you. That kind of appeal isn't just aimed
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