
The director of Huffington Post office in Washington, who is also specialist in electoral affairs, Ryan Grim said that attempts of the US presidential candidates Republican Donald Trump to win women's votes by using his wife Melania Trump to convince them to vote for him had come "too late." Grim said in a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA) that women are more than half of all voters in the United States as they have had a clear impact on the election results for more than 40 years.
He explained that since 1964, women represented the majority of eligible voters. They even had their influence in the election results for more than eight decades, and had the final word on who will be the President of the United States.
Grim said that the last three presidents who won re-elections got more women support when re-elected in the second round.
And for the notion that "women vote for women," Grim said there is no way to adopt this theory in an open society such as the US.
Meanwhile, Grim pointed to the shift of a large proportion of voters within these groups since the primaries because of Trump's fairly aggressive rhetoric against them, as he has previously stated that he would prevent Muslims from entering the United States along with his plan to deport immigrants from the country and build a wall on the Mexican border.
Women play an important role in the American elections, since they were first allowed to vote for the first time in 1920 after the approval on the nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.
Source: QNA
GMT 15:30 2016 Wednesday ,28 September
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