Harris and Trump are navigating Pennsylvania's gender gap with bro podcasts and ladies' room Post-its

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : To stay in touch with his fan boys, Trump serenades them with "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" -- the James Brown song played twice in one 45-minute span on Saturday.
74% : Trump leads with men in the state by 13 points, an advantage that expands among those under 50.
49% : In a particularly testosterone-drenched weekend in Pennsylvania earlier this month, Trump told a locker-room story about Arnold Palmer's manhood, cheered at a Pittsburgh Steelers -- N.Y. Jets football game, and then released an AI-generated image of himself on Truth Social suited up like a Steelers linebacker.
49% : "Trump ain't no better, but he's for stuff that's in the Bible.
47% : Trump has stoked the hypermasculine fervor, to almost comedic lengths, while Harris has run a campaign that rarely mentions gender or her historic candidacy -- with outside groups stepping in to try and bolster her female support in the first presidential election since the loss of the national right to an abortion.
44% : Trump has become a regular on bro-oriented podcasts where he talks about crypto and AI -- topics that rev guys' motors, according to Kush Desai, Trump's Pennsylvania communications director.
44% : "I think that's good for keeping other countries in check"And Democratic derisions of "toxic masculinity" may also be helping Trump.
41% : "Longo, 34, who rode a Trump bus around the state to stump for the former president, said women admire strong men and called Trump a "man's man.""And there's nothing ungenuine about that.
33% : ""Trump is doubling down on the strategy of being the masculine outsider to appeal to men not normally engaged in the political system," said Lara Putnam, a University of Pittsburgh history professor who studies Pennsylvania electoral trends.
31% : "The Trump campaign has paid at least $17 million for the ad, which, as of Oct. 19, has played 30,000 times, mostly during football games in swing states like Pennsylvania, according to NPR.Being seen as a pugnacious bully, Trump strategists argue, extends to how people think Trump would defend America.
28% : Men wore T-shirts that read "You Missed," with Trump flipping both middle fingers to his would-be assassin.
27% : "And unlike Trump who has made next to no direct appeals to women, save for a comment about 'being their protector,' Harris is actively trying to appeal to men, specifically Black men.

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