Women who voted for Donald Trump for president in 2016 have become his most ardent backers, the Washington Examiner is reporting.
“One of the great untold stories for Trump is how he is connecting with women,” said pollster Anne Sorock, president of Frontier Lab, which uses behavioral science to look at the cultural and political landscape.
Those women, who viewed him as confident and strong during the presidential campaign, felt empowered by his victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, she said.
The Examiner noted Trump did better with women voters than Clinton, winning 47 percent to 45 percent.
“When they initially supported him, they went against many of their communities and friends; when they were then proven correct, they told us that the empowerment was exhilarating. In contrast to the Tea Party women, who were energized by the gathering together of like-minded people to fight for Americanism, the new Trump women relate to an attitude that has been missing from our national culture: America is good and worth defending,” she said.
Her polling for Frontier Lab’s Ear to the Ground, revealed 85 percent of female primary Trump voters said they will vote Republican in the future, compared to 78 percent of male Trump voters, the Examiner noted.
“Most striking is that women who voted for Trump generally support the party more than men who voted for him in the primary and other (non-Trump) Republican primary voters,” Sorock said.