Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bullworks weekly roundtable discussion featuring

civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor

at the Bulwark, and I'm joined this week

by one of my regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal.

Two of our regulars are out, Linda and Damon, and so I'm delighted to be joined by two bulwark colleagues colleagues Sunny Bunch, our culture editor, and

Sam Stein, our managing editor. Welcome to both of you. Our wonderful special guest this week is Tim Alberta of the Atlantic, author of several books that are must read.

And so with that let us dig in to this week's news. I'd like to begin with a conversation about

polling and about the way this race seems to be shaking out

as of now late September, few weeks left to go in the race,

and it is looking Tim like one of the biggest divides in the electorate if not the largest divide is

men versus women. We have had a gender gap in American politics going back decades. It was around six or seven percent difference

in 2004, 2008. It was 15 points different in 2016 and this year bids to be even bigger than that.

And so one of the things that we have seen is Trump attempting to appeal to both

men and women in different ways. So he's attempting to appeal, let's start with his appeals to women. He's saying,

I will be your protector. You will be completely happy and

you won't even have to think about abortion, he said.

He said.

So your thoughts on the gender gap and on Trump's initial forays into appealing to more women voters.

Yeah, Mona, I'd say a couple of things.

First, to the... Yeah, Mona, I'd say a couple of things.

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