Donald Trump likes to suggest that the Second Amendment is in peril. But its the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, that has him on the run.The amendment went into effect 96 years ago on Friday, which is commemorated as Womens Equality Day.And in November, women will use their hard-fought right tolikely keep one of the most sexist presidential candidates in modern history out of the Oval Office.Women have skewedDemocraticfor decades, but this year the numbers could be even more dramatic. Women voters are overwhelmingly supportive of Hillary Clinton; while their male counterparts still lean towards her opponent.Donald Trump is faring terribly in the polls with women: Sixty percent of female likely voters said theyd go for Clinton in a head-to-head matchup against the reality TV star, according to a Quinnipiac poll out Thursday. Meanwhile, 48 percent of men said theyd vote for Trump, versus 42 percent for Clinton. An Economist/YouGov poll has Clinton polling 10 points ahead of Trump among women when you throw third-party candidates into the mix. Men, meanwhile, were 4 points more likely to choose Trump than Clinton. And anNBC/SurveyMonkey pollfound Clinton was up 21 points with female voters, but male voters preferred Trump by 6 percent.minorities and women are going to rescue american democracy from moral oblivion. https://t.co/B5fAk52dh6 Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) August 25, 2016 Theres been a lot of talk of how Trumps popularity with white men is shaping the election, but less focus on women: notsoccer moms or security moms or some other reductive description for female voters, who for some reason are treated as a special interest group in U.S. politics. They are not. Women makeup 52 percent of the voting-age population in the U.S. And women vote at higher rates than men. In 2014, 43 percent of women voted, compared with 41 percent of men, according to Census data.And many women may have extra incentive to turn out this year and vote for the countrys first woman president and against Trump, whose history of offensive remarks about women has dogged him throughout his campaign.Even though women are still woefully underrepresented in the Senate, the House and governors offices around the country, the power of the 19th Amendment ensures that we do have a voice in U.S. politics.Fittingly,one of Trumps most vocal business supporters ' billionaire Peter Thiel ' has said before that women earning the vote was bad for Democracy. While thats of course not true, we can say with certainty that the 19th Amendment hasnt been good for Trump himself.This is a man who seems determined to treat women as less than full human beings. He has called women pigs; said pumping breast milk and women going to the bathroom are disgusting; expressed the idea that husbands shouldnt let their wives work outside the home; and made it clear that the primary way he considers women is based on looks.He holds rallies where his opponent is called a bitch and worse ' and lately has portrayed Clinton as a hysterical, unstable woman. His campaign CEO has a dodgy history with a domestic violence charge.While Trumps daughter Ivanka has attempted to portray her father as an advocate for womens rights, and there is evidence that he promoted and encouraged the women who worked for him at his real-estate company,his policy platform offers little on womens issues: nothing on paid leave, some vague talk about equal pay if its deserved, and a child care tax credit that would clearly benefit those in the upper-income brackets.Come November, women will have the final say on whether that disconnect is going to work.Editors note: Donald Trump regularlyincites political violenceand is aserial liar,rampant xenophobe,racist,misogynistandbirtherwho has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims1.6 billion members of an entire religionfrom entering the U.S. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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