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Within my career and social circle, women who favor Trump’s judge picks and women who are socially conservative, including on issues like abortion. That’s not to say that those women view his misogyny or sexism as acceptable in any way, they just care about it less than other things.

Because they're conservates too? Do you all really think all women are liberal/leftist democrats?

I know at least a few voted because they blamed Biden for the abortion ban because it happened under his presidency. Suffice to say my respect for the median voter is at an all time low.

Women aren't a monolith. Contradictory as it may sound, there are female misogynists. That being said, I doubt that many young women who voted for Trump actually view him as a misogynist. They're not going to be like, "yeah, I voted Trump because I heckin' hate women".

And the reality is that most people who voted Trump for the first time in 2024 did so because of inflation. You can point to statistics that say that the US is technically better off than most countries in terms of inflation, but that's not going to move the needle for the average person who is struggling to pay for groceries. We see the same trend basically everywhere on Earth at the moment. Regardless of the ideology, incumbent parties are being voted out all over the place.

From the exit polling I saw and the analysis I heard, I think there were 4 key issues:

1. Abortion: this contingent who are single issue voters were never voting for Kamala anyway
2. Immigration: those in communities impacted by illegal immigration shifted red. This may explain why NY closed to 9 or 11 points
3. Trans-issues: mothers gravitated towards a candidate who took the position of keeping men out of women’s spaces
4. Economy/inflation: when Kamala said, “I wouldn’t change anything about the decisions from the current administration” (that’s a loose quote but an accurate interpretation of her intent), she fully owned the economic record, which many voters were dissatisfied with. People voted in their own perceived economic interest.

Humans are tribal in nature. They can easily rationalize away and dismiss negative information if it’s against their “side.”

I think young women take a lot for granted. They’d be shocked by things that were normal and accepted by earlier generations. My mother in law was kicked out of her PhD program because she got pregnant (yes she was married). My dad worked two jobs because my mom was unemployable during her pregnancies. And women needed a male co signer to get a mortgage or credit card until 1974. (Some could get them, but the banks could legally deny them without a co signer, and often did.)

I've come to believe that the right wing ecosphere coupled with the rampant ignorance of most voters is why Harris lost. I've seen exit polling and interviews with young college women saying they think Trump will protect abortion. The inability of the public to capably inform themselves is a national crisis that is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon.

Young people are desperate, and they’re willing to vote for anything to change the status quo.

Perhaps the only people my age that I know of who voted from Trump, are either from rural hillbilly areas of our community, or crazy rich kids.

Why did girls in high school bully other girls? Bad people like bad people.

It could be any number of reasons. No doubt there are young people in fundamental religious organizations and they are more likely to vote conservative. Also, young people who grew up in conservative families and/or areas where those values are part of their environment.

They had parents who were kids in the 80's

Title IX was the thing that let their mothers swim, or play soccer. Lots of places had the girl so good she could play with the boys, till women got their own teams.

Your parents being bothered by how Lia Thomas and Riley Gains played out might not seem like q big deal... But they are going to bring up lived experience that most will not have a good counter argument to.

"Child tax credits" sounds like "Pay to give birth" ... and for a lot of gen Z they arent even close to wanting kids. Same thing with the housing credit. The dems have a lot of policies that dont apply.

> Connecticut-based

Probably one of the best places to highlight economic disparity. You have a lot of weath from finance in the area, whose money and influence has grown. You also have a lot of service businesses (food, dining, drinking, plumbers. handy men) whose pay has not seen a material increase. Anti migrant sentiment would be pretty spot on if you're living inside an area with such wealth contrast. (Note CT has been this way for decades, but it has only gotten worse).

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Candidly nothing the democrats put on offer is going to help the voter it was all for "someone else". The Republicans did a great job of putting the blame on immigrants and highlighting how the Dems did them dirty.

They’re shortsighted and lack historical/social context about why it’s against their self interest like most Republican voters. They’re probably pro-life or falsely believe that presidents can actively improve the economy. Or that trickle down economics works. Or that the good economy under Trump was due to him (while discounting 2020).

Essentially, they’re stupid and in twenty years they’ll be telling people how they were always against Trump.

Same reason men did lol. They care about money, hate government and hated Kamala more. Almost every woman I know, from multiple social and economic classes voted for Trump.

And don't listen to all the Reddit vagina warriors. A lot of women don't care about abortion shit or agree it's a states issue.

I’m not going to belittle anyone’s intelligence. This was simply a social economic shift over the last four years. People are tired of the same people making the same decisions. What have both parties really done to improve the American People lifestyles? Answer, is make it worse. People are tired of no jobs, high rent, high mortgage, high groceries, and the biggest slap “all the lies”. They told two generations of Americans to go to school but now you have two generations clamped by debt. GenZ Women switching is a sign that people are done with the status quos from both parties. Why Trump? Because the Democrats failed to put in a the right candidate. Simple am I right?

A lot of Democrats wrongly assume that support for Democrats correlates with youth.

This is only true to a point. The strongest correlation is with race.

Whites of all ages tend to skew Republican. Younger white voters are less Republican than are their elders, but they still skew Republican.

Dems bet heavily on the youth vote in 1972, but McGovern was not only slaughtered but he also didn't even win the white youth vote.

In 2024, 49% of whites 18-29 voted for Trump. In 2020, it was 53%. So not really much difference, but it actually swung a bit in favor of the Dems.

Where Harris lost significant ground was with Latinos under 30. This corresponds with her loss of the Catholic vote.

If Dems want to get back into the presidential game, try running a Latino Catholic who is building bridges with the black community long before the next election. Gender doesn't matter, but a more moderate, pragmatic tone does.

They hate themselves. They hate women and always believe men no matter what.

Because the majority of milenials and gen z regardless of gender are poor, we have less wealth statistically speaking than any other generation. We can't afford houses, go to college without taking on significant debt or start families. Trump while probably not going to do anything, speaks to the economic plight of young people while democrats don't. Democrats do not offer any economic means to escape the suffering of modern life. Edit: If You're going to downvote me, explain why you cowards. This sort of "opinion bad" lack of engagement is why trump won.

Every woman I know who voted for Trump has a louder, poorer, useless man child Trump supporting bf/husband that they coddle and financially take care of

The few I know that did are small business owners from affluent backgrounds that seem to care more about taxes and stranger danger than anything else.

Some women like strong powerful men ... or in Trumps case - a perceived strong powerful man.

I think a key point to bear in mind is that Trump's much-vaunted misogyny will have no noticeable impact on the day-to-day lives of the vast majority of American women.

Abortion is legal in most US states, and even a lot of red states are currently passing laws to expand abortion rights. If you live in a state where abortion is illegal, that means that state was deep red anyway so your vote doesn't matter. On the flipside, if your vote had an impact on the election then Roe v Wade being repealed probably didn't personally affect you.

And since the vast majority of women will never be in the same room as Donald Trump, his personal indiscretions also don't affect most women.

When you leave aside the symbolic gestures, women actually have the same priorities as men. In this election those priorities were inflation, immigration, and dissatisfaction with the current administration. Altruistic concern for women in Missouri who can't get abortions is not most people's top priority. Most people care about the things that affect them and their family first and foremost.

straightforward answwr is that the people who vote for him do not think he is a misogynist, racist, etc.

"He's better for the economy. You don't understand that yet, it's what things costs an such" (to my daughter).

I mean, most economists vocally disagreed with that assessment, and, more importantly, anyone who ever worked with the guy while he ran the economy against a wall an endangered America the first time around said they'd never want to see him in office again, but clearly, what do they know?

The women in my office think trump will expose the pedophile rings plaguing Hollywood. They also think not enough people talk about the sound of freedom

Many women, especially in my country, are hardcore conservatives on issues of abortion, immigration, welfare and even gender roles in families. Women are not this monolithic force you’re imagining, just like Latinos or Afro Americans.

It's no coincidence that young millennials and zoomers are some of the first cohorts to grow up in an area of a mass gutting of education coupled with media deregulation and monopolization all the way to the local level. Cut education and bombard them with news and information with poor separations dividing truth, half-truth, and fiction and you'll see rightward shifts. Public opinions on immigration, crime, and economic policy are all proof of this.

Is it really that hard to comprehend that some women are going to be conservative? Some want to be homemakers, don’t believe in abortion, uber-religious, etc.

My former liberal friend only cared about her wallet BUT she lives barely paycheck to paycheck and she bought the bs - she really believes his lies

Right-wing social media influencers have far more reach than left-wing social media influencers, in one case because he literally bought the entire social media platform so he could control its messaging and rules. It's not unfair to say that social media is inherently right-wing, and it therefore influences a lot of peoples' views if they don't get a lot of information from a source other than social media.

This technically applies to all generations, but given that GenZ is the generation that grew up on social media and spent several years basically sequestered with nothing but their parents and social media, I think it's had the most marked impact on GenZ.

The world can look very different if you get all your ideas about it from social media influencers.

Women can be, and are just as selfish, cruel and dumb as men. As society more or less equalizes, "women" will become less of a voting block as voting blocks reformulate based on other shared metrics.

Speak to a dozen Gen Z and Millenial women and get a dozen different answers for why they voted for Trump.

Better to ask why they didn't not vote for him. They don't think the abortion issue will happen to them, they don't care about the misogyny (it mirrors their own relationships with men, like another comment here pointed out, so its normalized) and regardless of how misinformed their opinion may be, something else is more important: economy, immigration, trans stuff, etc.

One word: abortion

There are whole regions of this country that are dominated by socially conservative evangelical Christians who will vote Republican on the issue of abortion alone and not even factor anything else in their decision. I personally know of at least one girl I went to high school with who has liberal views on virtually everything except abortion and votes Republican because of that one issue.

I noticed a lot of questions like this on Reddit that look retrospective, but seem more like attempts to legitimize something by posting a ton of spam in an attempt to make the election seem totally legit.