By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-31 15:08:03 | Updated at 2024-10-31 17:38:43
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Women have outpaced men when it comes to early voting, which may be a sign of trouble for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
With only five days to go until Election Day, more than 60 million Americans have already cast their ballot, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab.
Women make up 54% of that number while men make up 44%.
Several swing states see a similar 10% difference between the genders when it comes to who has voted early: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania, in particular, could be key to deciding the winner of the White House.
While the numbers only show that more women have voted – but not who they voted for - polls show Trump has a significant deficit with female voters compared to Kamala Harris.
More women than men have voted thus far, early number show - above women vote early in Las Vegas, Nevada
An analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted in October shows that, among women, Harris led Trump by 12 points.
Additionally, Harris only trailed Trump by 2 points among white women - 46% to 44% - a much smaller margin than the 16-point lead Trump had over Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Democrats have harnessed reproductive rights as a rallying cry for their base, an issue they believe will bring women out to vote for their candidate.
And Harris has used the issue to target moderate Republican and independent women, particularly in the suburbs.
Many of those women supported Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary and Harris thinks she can win them over.
She's even brought in some celebrity help to remind women their vote is private.
Julia Roberts touts Harris in a campaign ad featuring women who secretly vote for Harris despite their husbands backing Trump.
The actress reminds women the voting booth is 'the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know.'
Republicans have noticed - and are worried.
'Early vote has been disproportionately female. If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It's that simple,' Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point and a close Trump ally, wrote on X.
More registered Republicans than Democrats have voted early in the battleground states of Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia as of early Thursday, although Democrats are outpacing Republicans in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
'We are seeing an increase in Republicans of all types, gender—men and women—voting,' Michael McDonald, a University of Florida who tracks early voting told Politico. 'It's just that women are still ahead and keeping pace.'
Donald Trump has made comments that could be seen as off putting to women
Kamala Harris has appealed to moderate Republican women in her quest to win White House
Not helping matters, Trump has made several comments that could seem off putting to women.
He said at a rally on Wednesday that he would protect American women 'whether the women like it or not.'
'I said, well, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them,' the former president said.
He's also used misogynistic attacks against Harris, which has turned off some women.
He's been accused by multiple women of sexual assault – which he has denied – including by blonde 6' 1' pageant queen Beatrice Keul.
'I think my size saved me,' Keul told DailyMail.com of the 1993 incident in the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time.
Her description of the events closely mirrors accusations made by several other women over the years – including writer E. Jean Carroll who has been awarded more than $88 million in damages after Trump accused her of lying over an alleged assault in a Bergdorf Good
