America's reckoning: will gender decide the US election?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump has been able to make inroads with working-class voters by touting populist stances on economics -- including tariffs on imports to protect local manufacturing, and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay -- and more isolationist stances on foreign policy.
49% : "[A friend] told me that a friend of hers who voted for Trump in '16 and '20 whispered to her over lunch that she is now quietly voting for the vice-president and me," Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, wrote on her Facebook page on Sunday.
48% : She was not "against Republicans" generally but had been turned off by Trump "and what he stands for" in her first election as a voter.
46% : Trump brought in wrestling star Hulk Hogan to speak at the Republican convention, struck a political bromance with billionaire Elon Musk, and spent three hours of free-ranging discussion on the podcast hosted by Joe Rogan, who has a vast male following across America.
43% : According to a Pew Research Center poll, Harris has the backing of 53 per cent of college-educated voters in the US, compared with 42 per cent who favour Trump.
39% : On the campaign trail Trump has repeatedly made bizarre, macho pledges to "protect women" -- saying last week that he would do so "whether they like it or not".
33% : But men have increasingly turned to Trump, who has tapped male anxieties and grievances, as well as traditional concerns about immigration and the economy.
30% : "On Tuesday, Americans will finally make their choice between Harris and Trump.
25% : They won't vote for Trump, he added, but the question remained whether they would turn up for Harris.
23% : Talk of women secretly supporting Harris while their husbands and partners backed Trump have spread like wildfire across the campaign.
19% : "Trump has not helped himself on the issue.
19% : Trump, meanwhile, has courted Black people, disaffected Latinos and Arab-Americans angry about US policy in the Middle East -- though the racist rhetoric at his recent Madison Square Garden rally could yet undermine that effort.
15% : While figures vary across polls, one from NBC last week showed Harris beating Trump by a margin of 57 per cent to 41 per cent among women, but Trump leading Harris by 58 per cent to 40 per cent among men.
11% : Harris supporters believe Trump is a phoney champion of struggling Americans, citing his plans for deep spending cuts, his opposition to expanding labour rights, and his plans to extend tax cuts for the wealthy and large companies.

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