Most women didn’t want Donald Trump to win. According to CNN exit polls released the day after the election, Trump lost the women’s vote by twelve points to Hillary Clinton. This gap jumped to 90 points among black women and 42 points among Latina women.
Given that the Republican nominee had been recorded bragging about groping women, it’s surprising that the gender gap wasn’t bigger. Trump’s standing among women voters was more or less in line with the GOP’s lackluster performance over the last 40 years. Mitt Romney lost the women’s vote by twelve points to President Barack Obama, according to Gallup. That was only a slight improvement from 2008, when Senator John McCain lost the women’s vote by 14 points. Women have backed a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican one by an average of eight points since 1980, according to Pew Research.
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