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By James Hohmann
July 6 at 9:21 AM
THE BIG IDEA: A new Washington Post-Schar School poll, published this morning, shows that only 32 percent of women approve of President Trumps job performance, compared to 54 percent of men. His approval rating overall is 43 percent. While 67 percent of women disapprove of Trumps handling of the immigration issue, only 51 percent of men do. The poll gives Democrats a 10-point advantage on the generic ballot, 47 percent to 37 percent.
Three things the president did Thursday might help illuminate why only 1 in 3 registered female voters approve of him, which is creating a major drag on GOP congressional candidates: After hiring former Fox News chief executive Bill Shine and defending Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Trump mocked the #MeToo movement during an evening rally in Montana.
-- Envisioning a 2020 matchup against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Trump imagined bringing a DNA kit to one of their debates and demanding that she use it to prove that shes got Native American ancestry. We have to do it gently because were in the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very careful, he said to scattered laughter. We will very gently take that kit, and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesnt hit her and injure her arm even though it only weighs probably two ounces.
The president insisted he will never apologize for derisively referring to the former Harvard Law School professor as Pocahontas. Ill give you a million dollars for your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows youre an Indian, Trump said, after discussing Warrens high cheek bones.
The unscripted riff, which touched on both race and gender, was reminiscent of Trumps multiyear campaign to falsely accuse Barack Obama of being born in Kenya. If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications, and if he gives his passport applications and records, I will give, to a charity of his choice
a check, immediately, for $5 million, Trump said in 2012. (He later claimed that he had offered $50 million.)
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. They are stupid.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)But #3 is actually #1.
Jimbo S
(2,955 posts)Initech
(99,914 posts)Fuck you Trump!
duforsure
(11,882 posts)And all minorities. He'll profit from it with their privatized prisons for profits for themselves with. I bet he's getting a lot of kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions, then funneled into his pockets.