According to new polling from The New York Times, the gender gap that exists across all voter age groups is — as Donald Trump would put it — YUGE, especially for Gen-Z.
Here's how Claire Cain Miller introduced the data:
In some ways, this presidential election has become a referendum on gender roles — and the generation with the biggest difference in opinion between male and female voters is Generation Z.
On one side are young women, who as a group are very liberal, and who have been politically galvanized by gender bombshells like #MeToo, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.
On the other are young men, some of whom feel that rapidly changing gender roles have left them behind socially and economically, and see former President Donald J. Trump as a champion of traditional manhood.
Just by swapping out Joe Biden with Kamala Harris, the percentage gap between young male and young female voters in swing states rose from 39-points to a whopping 51-points.
(Apparently, having Bill Clinton speak at the DNC had little impact on the #MeToo crowd ...)
And what's behind this gap, beyond the usual political leanings of men and women? A battle over gender roles that has become a pillar of the culture war, where men are nothing but toxic incels and women are girl bosses who don't need no man ... unless the man is an abortionist.
Will Gen X (the only age range Trump is winning when both sexes are factored together) save the day again?
Time to find out.
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