The creepy Trump-weird Vance ticket has dug itself into a deep hole when it comes to women voters. What with weird Vance talking about childless cat ladies being a threat to the future of the country, refusing to say that they would veto a federal ban on abortions, supporting the many extreme Trump abortion bans in the various states, and having a Republican convention that reeked of toxic masculinity, their message is pretty alienating

Furthermore, floating the idea that people who have children should get more voting power than those without children because they are more vested in the future is bizarre, and arguing that grandparents are the solution to the high cost of affordable child care shows a lack of understanding of the depth and breadth of the problem.

Creepy Trump seems to have realized that he needs to reach out to women, but he may want to rethink how he goes about it.

In his first outdoor rally since the second apparent attempt to assassinate him, Trump argued women would be safer and more prosperous with him as president and would “no longer be thinking about abortion.”

“I will protect women at a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure,” Trump said. “Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and their lives will be great again. So women, we love you. We’re going to take care of you.”

Don’t creepy Trump’s words (“I will protect women”? “We’re going to take care of you”?) sound awfully patronizing to women? Who is the ‘we’ anyway? Men?

Women don’t need the protection of creepy Trump or weird Vance or men in general. They can take care of themselves. What they need is to have their rights respected and not be infantilized.

He also said something that does not make any sense.

The former president said women won’t have to think about abortion because decisions about regulating it are now left to the states. Many Republican-led states have taken steps to restrict or eliminate abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Trump nominated three of the six justices who voted to overturn Roe.

North Carolina banned most abortions after 12 weeks last year, with Republicans in the state legislature overriding Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto.

Voters overwhelmingly say they trust Harris to do a better job handling abortion policy, with 55% favoring her while 27% favored Trump in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Harris and Democrats running down ballot have highlighted stories of women who faced severe medical complications or death because they didn’t get proper medical care from doctors worried about the impact of abortion laws. Harris on Friday blasted Trump as a threat to women’s freedoms and their lives, warning in a speech in Georgia that Republicans would continue to target access to abortion if he returns to the White House.

Why wouldn’t they have to think about it just because states are now regulating it? They have to think about it a lot more because laws vary from state to state and states can change their laws much more easily than the federal government.

Creepy Trump is getting hit on both sides of the abortion divide. His vacillation on whether he would support Florida’s referendum to reject its current six-week limit on abortion and his statement that the IVF treatments should be free, and his refusal to commit to signing a federal law banning abortions has also angered some anti-abortion activists.

Eligible to vote in Florida, Trump has criticized as too restrictive a new state law banning abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy. But he said he would vote against the ballot measure that would make abortion legal until fetal viability.

Trump’s support for a state-by-state solution was a factor in the decision of Charles Camosy, an anti-abortion Catholic academic, to declare he now feels politically estranged.
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Some other anti-abortion activists have forcefully renounced Trump, including leaders of End Abortion Ohio.

“We call on God-fearing American voters to withhold their votes from Trump until he evidences genuine repentance for his pro-abortion stance,” said the group’s executive director, Nicholas Kallis.

Creepy Trump has been trying to tap-dance his way around the abortion issue but his routine is not going over well.