Republicans fret over Trump’s freefall among women

Republicans are alarmed that former President Trump’s support among women is deteriorating in the polls and that his efforts to stop the bleeding don’t appear to be working.

While Republicans are no strangers to the gender gap between the parties in presidential elections, they now face a “chasm” between male and female voters.

Republican pollster Whit Ayres says “it’s going to be a challenge” for Trump to chip away at Harris’s big lead among women.

“The real challenge right now for Republicans is whether they can perform sufficiently well among men to overcome the deficit among women. Given the prominence of abortion in this year’s race and Trump’s past statements about women, the traditional gender gap could become a gender chasm,” he warned.

An ABC News/Ipsos poll published Sunday showed Harris with a huge lead over Trump among women, 54 percent to 41 percent, while Trump enjoyed a more modest 5-percentage point lead over Harris among men, 51 percent to 46 percent.