Trump and Harris face a persistent gender gap heading into Election Day

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58% : "Meanwhile, surveys show that Trump has built a solid lead with men.
56% : The poll shows Harris getting support from 49% of registered voters while Trump gets an identical 49%.
54% : On Monday, Trump, at a battleground on the eve of Election Day, invited Lara Trump and his daughter Tiffany to the stage.
53% : Surveys show Trump leading with men.
53% : In an outlier poll from J. Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register, Harris has leaped ahead of Trump in Iowa, a state he won in 2016 and again in 2020.
53% : The poll, conducted between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2, finds women backing Harris by a 16 percentage-point margin (57%-41%) and men supporting Trump by 18 points (58%-40%).
49% : According to the same polls, boomer men supported Trump over Harris 57% to 39% while boomer women chose Harris 52% to 43%.
46% : An aggregate of three recent NBC News polls, conducted in July, September and October, found that Gen Z men are supporting Trump over Harris by 10 points (51% to 41%) while Gen Z women are going for Harris by over 40 points (68% to 26%).
44% : His campaign has also enlisted onetime foes and campaign rivals, with Megyn Kelly announcing Monday that she would appear at a Pittsburgh rally for Trump to explain why she is voting for him, an appeal that comes after Kelly expressed concern that his campaign wasn't making sufficient inroads with women voters.
41% : A small increase in turnout by women voters, white voters with college degrees and voters of color, delivers a result that puts Harris in the lead over Trump.
38% : "Well, reproductive rights have a lot to do with it, but I really don't know," said Ned McCarthy, 70, who's supporting Trump.
37% : It is unusual that both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are focused on the same slice of voters, but as the race narrows, both Harris and Trump have found themselves pulling out the stops to mobilize women.Going into Election Day, female voters are much more likely to say they support Harris, with some polls showing the vice president holding a double-digit advantage.
37% : It's not that Trump has ignored women voters.
37% : This comes as Trump has at times veered off message as he barnstorms the country in the final days of the campaign, and attacked his political adversaries, including Cheney, whom he called a "radical war hawk" -- and a chicken hawk -- during a rally last week, wondering how the former Republican would feel on the front lines of a war.
34% : Trump is aided by the two-thirds of voters who say the nation is moving in the wrong direction, a persistent advantage on the economy and cost of living, and a rosy assessment of his presidency.
30% : Comparing 2024 to 2020 is difficult because in the previous contest Covid scrambled many voters practices and Trump was actively discouraging voting by mail more than he is doing this time.
28% : "Indeed, we have found that amongst undecided voters the biggest hesitation about voting Trump relates to concerns about what a conservative influence on his agenda would mean for women's rights.
28% : Trump and Haley haven't appeared together on the campaign trail in the final weeks, in spite of much speculation.
25% : In conditions slightly more favorable for Republicans -- with more men turning out to vote, as well as white voters and voters without a college degree -- Trump gains an edge over Harris.
7% : Asked about his message to women voters who might be thinking about voting for Harris, Trump told NBC News over the weekend that a vote for Harris risks economic catastrophe, responding: "That you're voting for the wrong person, and we'll end up in a depression, and you're not going to be safe.

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