The 'boys vs. girls' election

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The 2024 election. It’s a contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But increasingly, it also looks like it’s girls versus boys. Playbook’s Rachael Bade caught up with Sarah Longwell, Executive Director of Republican Voters Against Trump, Publisher of The Bulwark, and Host of "The Focus Group" Podcast, to learn what is driving a record-setting gender gap this election cycle. Longwell has conducted hundreds of focus groups and knows intimately how voters, in their own words, are processing Harris and Trump’s candidacies, and what issues and ideas will determine who they vote for. Rachael Bade is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Sarah Longwell is the CEO of Longwell Partners, Publisher of The Bulwark, and host of "The Focus Group" podcast Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio. Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Banning IVF, creating a national pregnancy registry, criminalizing porn, making you pay more for health care and housing.
0:09.0	WTF, this nightmare is Project 2025, and if Trump is elected it will be the MAGA movement's dream that the corrupt Supreme Court justices made come true.
0:20.0	But we can vote to stop them.
0:23.4	Learn more at Project 2025. WTF, paid for by United for Democracy.
0:30.1	You're going to start hearing a lot more about the manosphere.
0:35.0	The 2024 election.
0:36.7	Sure, it's a contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,
0:40.0	but increasingly, it also looks like it's girls versus boys.
0:44.2	Poll after poll telling the same story.
0:46.8	A Times-Ciana survey this month showing Harris up 16 with women and Trump up 11 with men.
0:52.4	A set of Quinnapeac polls in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
0:56.0	showing Harris winning women by 20 points each.
1:00.0	And it makes me worried about the propagation of the species in this country because men and women,
1:06.4	that gap between how they vote, is becoming almost untenably wide.
1:11.6	Meanwhile, according to a running average of election nerds over at split ticket,
1:16.0	Trump is on pace to win men by an even bigger margin than he did in 2020,
1:20.0	by about nine points nationally.
1:23.4	But those numbers only tell part of the story.
1:26.0	The other half is from the mouths of the voters themselves.
1:29.2	Sarah Longwell is publisher of the Bullwork
1:31.1	and is well known here in town for her work as a
1:33.3	never trumper. But what she does with the rest of her time is talk to voters.
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