Rebecca Zeljko
President Joe Biden’s lead among women is the lowest Democrats have seen in 20 years, according to the latest polling average compiled by The New York Times.
Biden’s lead among women has dropped to single digitswhich is the weakest clue According to polling averages, Democrats have had it within two decades compiled via NYT. Aggregated polls show former President Donald Trump leading among men by double digits, dwarfing Biden’s lead among women and potentially jeopardizing his re-election.
According to the NYT, Biden had a 13-point lead among women in 2020, but the lead has since narrowed to eight points. Biden’s decline in support is particularly noticeable among Black and Latinx women. According to to the latest KFF polls.
According to the NYT, Biden had an 86-point lead among Black women in 2020, which has since dropped to 58 points. Biden had a 40-point lead among Latina women, but is currently polling just 12 points ahead.
Trump currently leads the men’s race by 19 points, According to in the May New York Times/Siena poll. Earlier, Trump won the men’s vote by eight points (*20*)Lead in 2020 and 11 points Lead According to the Roper Center in 2016
Republicans haven’t won women’s votes since former President George H. W. Bush won by 1 point in 1988. According to to the Roper Center. The last Democratic candidate to finish with a single-digit lead among women was John Kerry in 2004.
According to the Roper Center, in 2016, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won the women’s vote by 13 points. Former President Barack Obama won by a similar margin, winning the women’s vote by 11 points and 13 points in 2012 AND 2008appropriately.
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Rebeka Zeljko is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Biden Voters” photo by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0
