Kamala Harris Responds to Donald Trump's Pledge to Protect Women "Whether They Like It or Not"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : I said, 'well, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not,'" Trump told the audience.
42% : Others said that Trump's remarks reminded them of his hot-mic moment on "Access Hollywood" in 2005, which was made public during the 2016 presidential campaign, in which Trump said that his celebrity status allowed him to get away with being a sexual predator.
34% : "That nauseous feeling so many of us had in 2016 when we heard the tape of Trump bragging about assaulting women ...
31% : This gap is likely due in large part to Trump's blatant disregard for voters' desire to protect and expand reproductive rights in the U.S.; as president, Trump appointed three of the six Supreme Court justices who would later overturn the federal abortion protections established in Roe v. Wade.
30% : "Without apparently meaning to -- but without being able to help it -- Trump with that line distilled the wide gender gap that's defining the 2024 presidential contest," Washington Post columnist Philip Bump said, adding, "it's too crass to articulate exactly how groping or assaulting a woman comports with the phrase Trump used at his rally in Wisconsin.
27% : Defenders of the former president attempted to do damage control by repeating false, right-wing talking points about crime and immigration that Trump frequently peddles at his rallies -- ignoring that Trump's remark about being a "protector" of women was a direct reference to his comments about abortion weeks ago.
21% : During his rally on Wednesday night, Trump complained about his campaign staffers telling him to stop talking about being a "protector" of women, saying that he refused to follow their advice.
7% : Trump has also claimed in recent months that women voters wouldn't "be thinking about abortion" if he won the election against Vice President Kamala Harris.Polling of the race demonstrates that there is a wide gender gap between the two candidates, with women preferring Harris over Trump.

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