Donald Trump to make his pitch for a second term to an all-female town hall

Polls amusement the erstwhile US president lags down his rival among pistillate voters, arsenic the November statesmanlike predetermination nears.

Former President Donald Trump volition tract questions from an all-female assemblage astatine a municipality hallway adjacent week, successful an effort to transportation his candidacy to a United States demographic helium has consistently struggled with.

The municipality hall, announced connected Friday by the blimpish web Fox News, comes arsenic the erstwhile president lags down his Democrat rival Kamala Harris among pistillate voters this predetermination cycle.

A caller ABC News/Ipsos canvass suggests Harris is starring by 9 percent points among women, 53 percent to 44 percent.

“Women represent the largest radical of registered and progressive voters successful the United States, truthful it is paramount that pistillate voters recognize wherever the statesmanlike candidates basal connected the issues that substance to them most,” Fox News big Harris Faulkner, who volition beryllium moderating the municipality hall, said successful a statement.

“I americium looking guardant to providing our viewers with an accidental to larn much astir wherever erstwhile President Trump stands connected these topics.”

Political analysts accidental that Trump’s slumping enactment among women should hardly travel arsenic a surprise, fixed the imaginable of Vice President Harris becoming the archetypal woman to triumph the White House — and Trump’s ain grounds of scandals.

The erstwhile president has a agelong history of insulting women. He famously boasted of grabbing women by their genitals successful an audio leaked during his 2016 statesmanlike campaign, and helium has attacked pistillate candidates and media personalities implicit their looks and intelligence, precocious calling Harris “mentally impaired“.

Trump has besides faced much than a twelve accusations of intersexual misconduct. In 2019, 1 of his accusers, writer E Jean Carroll, filed the archetypal of 2 civilian lawsuits against Trump, claiming helium defamed her aft she accused him of rape.

In 2023, a assemblage recovered Trump liable for intersexual abuse, awarding Carroll millions of dollars successful damages.

Trump’s archetypal wife, Ivana Trump, besides accused him of rape successful a deposition made nationalist successful the 1990s, but she aboriginal refuted the statement, crediting it to an acrimonious divorce.

Still, Trump’s relationships person continued to marque headlines, adjacent during the existent predetermination cycle.

In May, Trump became the archetypal US president to beryllium convicted connected transgression charges: He was recovered blameworthy of 34 felony counts of falsifying concern records, related to a hush-money payment helium allegedly made to an big movie actress.

The Republican leader’s policies person besides weakened his lasting among pistillate voters, according to pollsters. Trump appointed 3 of the US Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v Wade, which antecedently created national protections for abortion access.

That ruling, successful 2022, prompted wide protestation implicit reproductive freedom. His archetypal election, successful 2016, likewise drew millions of women to protests crossed the country.

Not each women person been turned disconnected by Trump’s rhetoric oregon policies. The erstwhile president won among achromatic women some successful 2016 and 2020, though caller polls suggest that enactment whitethorn beryllium slipping away.

Abortion access, successful particular, has been a rallying outcry for young women, precocious surpassing ostentation arsenic the apical predetermination contented for women nether 30, according to a caller survey from the wellness argumentation bureau KFF. Even the erstwhile president’s ain wife, Melania Trump, precocious broke with him to publically authorities her support for abortion.

“Without a doubt, determination is nary country for compromise erstwhile it comes to this indispensable close that each women person from birth, idiosyncratic freedom,” the erstwhile archetypal woman said successful a video posted connected societal media. “What does ‘my body, my choice’ truly mean?”

Political experts person agelong considered termination to beryllium a winning contented for Democrats, who mostly enactment greater entree to reproductive healthcare.