The Memo: Gaetz and Hegseth controversies could trickle down to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Harris won 53 percent of women and Trump 45 percent.
55% : "Still, all of this comes on top of long-standing challenges for Trump and his party when it comes to female voters.
55% : While Trump did better with women in this month's election than many polls predicted -- and shaved some points off the Democratic advantage with female voters compared to 2020 -- women still lean away from him and his party.
50% : Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) left Congress upon being nominated by Trump to serve as attorney general last week.
50% : There is no sign, at least so far, that Trump is having second thoughts.
34% : Trump denies wrongdoing in all those cases and generally tends to portray the women involved as motivated by a desire for fame or money.
27% : Trump was not held liable for rape at the trial.
21% : Trump lost female voters younger than 30 by 24 points and lost unmarried women by 21 points.
21% : But Trump could incur some damage -- and might even consider cutting his losses -- if more allegations emerge.
19% : Carroll has alleged Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
19% : Then there is Trump's broader history, which includes hush money payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006.
18% : Trump was held liable for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial last year.
18% : But more than 20 women have accused Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct, albeit of varying degrees of severity.
15% : "An unnamed source told CNN, in relation to Gaetz, that Trump was "not going to back off.

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