Harris found success with women who have cats, but Trump got the dog owner vote: AP VoteCast

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our PodcastsMore voters are dog owners, and Trump did better with themIf anything, the result of the 2024 election suggests Democrats may have some work to do with dog owners.
51% : Voters who owned a dog, including those who owned a cat as well, were more likely to support Trump, and they made up a bigger share of the electorate.
48% : Trump narrowly won the backing of men who only owned cats; slightly more than half of these voters supported him.
44% : Trump won about 6 in 10 men voters who owned a dog but no cat, and about half of female voters in this group.
30% : They were also more likely than female voters overall to have a negative view of Trump and the Republican Party.
18% : A simple explanation for the divide is that women who were cat owners were never very inclined to vote for Trump, even before Vance's comments resurfaced.
7% : While Trump's campaign did not make the same appeals to dog owners that Harris' campaign did with cat owners, Trump falsely claimed immigrants in Ohio were stealing and eating dogs and cats.

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