2024 US elections takeaways: how female voters broke for Harris and Trump
Preliminary exit polling shows Harris won women, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors
Gender had promised to be one of the biggest stories of the 2024 election. With abortion one of voters’ top issues, Donald Trump’s well-documented history of misogyny and a female presidential candidate of color on the ballot, Democrats banked on women showing up in force to defeat him. But Trump’s stunning victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote dashed those hopes – and scrambled the narrative around how gender, race and other markers of identity informed Americans’ votes.
Based on available exit polling, which remains preliminary, here are five early takeaways on how gender shaped the 2024 elections.
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