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I think Pence is another nail in Trump’s coffin, bad choice, he should've picked a conservative women.
Trump had a problem with women voters. Pence could make it even worse.
By Katie Zezima 7/16/2016
Donald Trump has already had problems making inroads with female, gay and minority voters. His newly announced vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, could make things even worse.
Pence has endorsed controversial legislation on abortion, gay rights and immigration both in Indiana and while in Congress, where he was consistently ranked as one of the most right-leaning members of the House. He attempted to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, supported a measure that made English the nation’s official language and signed one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws earlier this year.
Pence is almost certain to appeal to socially conservative and evangelical voters who have been skeptical of Trump, a brash, thrice-married New Yorker with little appetite for fighting the culture wars. With Pence, Trump brought onto the ticket his inverse: a social-issues warrior with a long, very conservative track record.
[What it means that Mike Pence called himself an ‘evangelical Catholic’]
Democrats — including presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — women’s health advocates and gay rights groups wasted no time pouncing on Pence, whom they described as extreme, anti-woman and anti-gay.
“A Trump-Pence ticket should send a shiver down the spine of women in this country,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “Donald Trump just sent a message to the women of America: Your health and your lives are not important.”
A Washington Post-ABC News poll last month found that 77 percent of women had an unfavorable impression of Trump, including 62 percent who saw him in a “strongly unfavorable” light. Trump’s negative ratings among women are more than 20 percentage points higher than 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney received at any point in that year’s campaign.
In a May NBC News/Marist poll, 41 percent of Indiana women surveyed said they disapproved of Pence, and the same number said they approve of his job performance.
Earlier this year, Pence signed one of the nation’s farthest-reaching abortion laws, which bans abortions of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome or any other disability or because of the race, sex or ancestry of the fetus. The measure subjects abortion providers to disciplinary sanctions and civil liability for wrongful death for performing an abortion for any of the reasons stated in the law.
The law also mandates that fetuses that are miscarried or stillborn in a medical facility be buried or cremated and that women have an ultrasound at least 18 hours before a scheduled abortion.
A judge struck down portions of the law prohibiting women from seeking to abort fetuses due to specific circumstances and its mandate on disposing of fetuses before it was scheduled to take effect July 1. The Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the ultrasound provision last week.
“This law attempted to do exactly what Supreme Court precedent said could not be done: invade a woman’s privacy rights by preventing her from deciding whether to obtain a pre-viability abortion,” Ken Falk, the legal director of the Indiana ACLU, said in a statement.
The law provoked a firestorm in Indiana and across the country. Some women said the law doesn’t account for the fact that many women have miscarriages and don’t know it.
In one attention-grabbing effort, opponents tweeted, emailed and called Pence with graphic descriptions of their menstrual cycle. Many used the hashtag #periodsforpence or wrote on a Facebook page with the same name. On Friday, women started contacting Trump in a similar effort they billed as “Tampons for Trump.”
“Pence’s election meant R.I.P. to women’s rights in Indiana,” Clinton’s campaign wrote in a news release.
[While the culture wars rage, Trump largely stays out of the fight]
In Congress, Pence embarked on a crusade against Planned Parenthood, filing the first legislation that called for barring the organization from receiving federal funding. In both 2011 and 2013, Pence played a central role in trying to shut down the government over funding Planned Parenthood, gambits that did not work. Read more
Meanwhile, as usual, Hillary is beating the hell out of him in the polls.
Clinton leads Trump by 12 points ahead of Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll
NEW YORK | BY GRANT SMITH AND CHRIS KAHN 7/15/2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, making him the clear underdog ahead of next week's Republican National Convention.
Forty-five percent of likely voters supported former Secretary of State Clinton, 33 percent supported Trump, the wealthy businessman, and the remainder supported neither, according to the July 11-15 online poll.
The survey showed little change from Tuesday, when Clinton had led Trump by 13 percentage points.
Clinton has been ahead in the poll since early January. Trump only approached her level of support in May, after his last two remaining rivals quit the race and he became the presumptive Republican nominee.
Trump's favorability has dropped since then, as his campaign began to focus on the Nov. 8 general election.
Trump has faced criticism in recent weeks over his now-defunct Trump University venture, which is accused of making false promises, and over his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
The poll results were mostly gathered before Thursday night's deadly truck attack in Nice, France, and before Trump's announcement on Friday that Indiana Governor Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate.
The poll results suggest that Clinton’s use of personal email for government business while secretary of state and her handling of classified information have not damaged her support among likely voters. Read more
Trump had a problem with women voters. Pence could make it even worse.
By Katie Zezima 7/16/2016
Donald Trump has already had problems making inroads with female, gay and minority voters. His newly announced vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, could make things even worse.
Pence has endorsed controversial legislation on abortion, gay rights and immigration both in Indiana and while in Congress, where he was consistently ranked as one of the most right-leaning members of the House. He attempted to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, supported a measure that made English the nation’s official language and signed one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws earlier this year.
Pence is almost certain to appeal to socially conservative and evangelical voters who have been skeptical of Trump, a brash, thrice-married New Yorker with little appetite for fighting the culture wars. With Pence, Trump brought onto the ticket his inverse: a social-issues warrior with a long, very conservative track record.
[What it means that Mike Pence called himself an ‘evangelical Catholic’]
Democrats — including presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — women’s health advocates and gay rights groups wasted no time pouncing on Pence, whom they described as extreme, anti-woman and anti-gay.
“A Trump-Pence ticket should send a shiver down the spine of women in this country,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “Donald Trump just sent a message to the women of America: Your health and your lives are not important.”
A Washington Post-ABC News poll last month found that 77 percent of women had an unfavorable impression of Trump, including 62 percent who saw him in a “strongly unfavorable” light. Trump’s negative ratings among women are more than 20 percentage points higher than 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney received at any point in that year’s campaign.
In a May NBC News/Marist poll, 41 percent of Indiana women surveyed said they disapproved of Pence, and the same number said they approve of his job performance.
Earlier this year, Pence signed one of the nation’s farthest-reaching abortion laws, which bans abortions of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome or any other disability or because of the race, sex or ancestry of the fetus. The measure subjects abortion providers to disciplinary sanctions and civil liability for wrongful death for performing an abortion for any of the reasons stated in the law.
The law also mandates that fetuses that are miscarried or stillborn in a medical facility be buried or cremated and that women have an ultrasound at least 18 hours before a scheduled abortion.
A judge struck down portions of the law prohibiting women from seeking to abort fetuses due to specific circumstances and its mandate on disposing of fetuses before it was scheduled to take effect July 1. The Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the ultrasound provision last week.
“This law attempted to do exactly what Supreme Court precedent said could not be done: invade a woman’s privacy rights by preventing her from deciding whether to obtain a pre-viability abortion,” Ken Falk, the legal director of the Indiana ACLU, said in a statement.
The law provoked a firestorm in Indiana and across the country. Some women said the law doesn’t account for the fact that many women have miscarriages and don’t know it.
In one attention-grabbing effort, opponents tweeted, emailed and called Pence with graphic descriptions of their menstrual cycle. Many used the hashtag #periodsforpence or wrote on a Facebook page with the same name. On Friday, women started contacting Trump in a similar effort they billed as “Tampons for Trump.”
“Pence’s election meant R.I.P. to women’s rights in Indiana,” Clinton’s campaign wrote in a news release.
[While the culture wars rage, Trump largely stays out of the fight]
In Congress, Pence embarked on a crusade against Planned Parenthood, filing the first legislation that called for barring the organization from receiving federal funding. In both 2011 and 2013, Pence played a central role in trying to shut down the government over funding Planned Parenthood, gambits that did not work. Read more
Meanwhile, as usual, Hillary is beating the hell out of him in the polls.
Clinton leads Trump by 12 points ahead of Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll
NEW YORK | BY GRANT SMITH AND CHRIS KAHN 7/15/2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 12 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, making him the clear underdog ahead of next week's Republican National Convention.
Forty-five percent of likely voters supported former Secretary of State Clinton, 33 percent supported Trump, the wealthy businessman, and the remainder supported neither, according to the July 11-15 online poll.
The survey showed little change from Tuesday, when Clinton had led Trump by 13 percentage points.
Clinton has been ahead in the poll since early January. Trump only approached her level of support in May, after his last two remaining rivals quit the race and he became the presumptive Republican nominee.
Trump's favorability has dropped since then, as his campaign began to focus on the Nov. 8 general election.
Trump has faced criticism in recent weeks over his now-defunct Trump University venture, which is accused of making false promises, and over his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
The poll results were mostly gathered before Thursday night's deadly truck attack in Nice, France, and before Trump's announcement on Friday that Indiana Governor Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate.
The poll results suggest that Clinton’s use of personal email for government business while secretary of state and her handling of classified information have not damaged her support among likely voters. Read more
