Baffling. Just baffling.
Baffling. Just baffling. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com

Last week, Donald Trump faced a flood of sexual assault accusations. The week before, a leaked Access Hollywood tape heard Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women. Yet in spite of all this, some women are still enthusiastically supporting Donald Trump. (With Melania “Pussy Bow” Trump and Ivanka Trump leading the way.)

If anything, Trump’s female supporters have become more outspoken in the wake of the allegations, mobilizing their message online, for example with the Twitter hashtag #WomenWhoVoteTrump:

Media outlets sent reporters out to talk to Trump’s female supporters. Most of these women brush off the allegations of harassment, saying they distract from “the real issues”, or say that Bill and Hillary Clinton face the same accusations. Others reason it with their own experiences.

From Anne Helen Petersen’s report for Buzzfeed:

“That was 10 years ago, and he’s a 70-year-old man now, so it’s not going to be a problem,” [a woman] says, leaning in close to whisper. “Look behind you, not now, but in a second — that’s my husband, and he’s 70 years old, and let me tell you, it’s not going to be a problem.”

Victoria, the woman who’d made the “Adorable Deplorable” shirts, tells me, “Women love that. I’m not talking about assault here, but getting grabbed at, it’s a way of saying you’re still cute — I’d like it, and I’m 65! Wouldn’t you like it?”

Patricia Murphy spoke to women at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina for the The Daily Beast:

“I’d be honored if Donald Trump would touch me inappropriately! I sure would! Do it again!” Trina Hudson laughed as she walked out of Trump’s Friday night rally in Charlotte, the second one she’s been to so far.

“Obviously it doesn’t make his character look great,” [Meg Prokopenko] said. “But if you look at Bill and Hillary paying hundreds of thousands to cover up a rape that Bill did, I don’t see her as being a champion for women’s rights.”

And this, from Mary Jordan’s report for the Washington Post:

[One woman] said she has heard professional men speaking “very inappropriately and it doesn’t make them incompetent.” And she noted that huge numbers of women bought “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the best-selling erotic novel that centered on bondage and rough sex.

“Women can be just as inappropriate,” she said.

FiveThirtyEight points out that women are a deciding factor in this election, with a “historically overwhelming” number identifying as Democrat, and supporting Hillary Clinton, who has a 20-point lead among women over Trump.

Even so, it’s clear that Trump has a very visible and very vocal contingent of women on his side. A strange phenomenon for an even stranger election.

8 replies on “The Strange Phenomenon of Women Who Vote Trump”

  2. It isn’t all that shocking, GIVEN that we are only down to 2 choices and Hillary is the other one. i.e., someone who has stood by a womanizer, adulterer and some say rapist for decades…and even participated in trying to silence Bill’s partners. Heck, you could also write a similar story on titled “how can women support hillary” and ask the same questions of hillary supporters about her participation in Bill’s shenanigans over the years. I certainly won’t be voting for Trump, but just pointing out that there really is no good choice here if you are approaching your vote from a “let’s vote for the least womanizer-ish / womanizer-enabler-ish candidate”.

  4. This is one situation where you shouldn’t take the “red pill”. Killary is a viscous war-mongering bitch, but at least she will TRY to promote some kind of balance. DT is already appointing CEOs into the highest governmental positions with extreme conflict of interests. He will pimp our whole country out like a trick on the global street corner.

  5. If one were to order Comment #2 at a restaurant, I suspect it would go something like this…

    “I’ll take a jumbo word salad topped with pan seared bullshit and the cognitive dissonance vinaigrette on the side. And can you bring me a Zima when you get the chance? Thank you.”

  6. Oh, Emilio. Reading comprehension and humor have never been your strong suits (under any of your many portlandmonthly accounts). It’s ok, but maybe someone like you really shouldn’t make a habit of trying to read and respond to things on the internet. Just a suggestion….

  7. One thing the Trumpies don’t get is they are the ones that need the disability checks, the food stamps, the child protective services, the court appointed attorneys, the Secure Rural Schools funds, the free health care because they won’t sign up for Obamacare, the free school lunch…. Who gives those entitlements away? Hillary and those dirty progressives.

  8. Jeez JTR, you must have a lot of online haters. Do you just lump them all in to one category and treat them the exact same?

    Regardless, I’m pretty sure I interpreted your ridiculous comparison correctly. It just appears that I’m able to see it for the nonsense it really is. You on the other hand, are to simple to understand how dangerous your little reduction “exercise” can be when appealing to nitwits like yourself in the Trump camp.

    And I know, I know, “you certainly won’t be voting for Trump,” but anyone can claim that before or after they’ve stepped into the voting both and pulled the lever. The real question is…

    Will you have the yarbles to admit that you voted for a madman on Nov 8th?

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