With less than three weeks to go until the presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are effectively in a dead heat. Yet when it comes to support among women, the vice president is absolutely trouncing the ex-president, beating him by a whopping 15 points, according to a new poll. Even just taking white women into account, Trump is faring historically badly, and is on track to put up the worst numbers of any GOP candidate in a century with that particular demographic.
Hence the decision to participate in a town hall with Fox News on Tuesday night that focused on “women’s issues”—which went, well, probably exactly how one would expect such an event to go. Meaning he spent a significant amount of time ranting about immigrants and almost no time giving substantive answers to people’s questions.
Asked why the government is “involved in women’s basic rights,” i.e. the right to have an abortion, Trump responded by telling his favorite lie: that everyone wanted Roe v. Wade overturned.
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And what will he do to make bacon more affordable? Following a detour about how the war in Ukraine and October 7 would not have happened on his watch, his big answer re: inflation was “we have to get prices down.”
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On the topic of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports, he declared that he’s just going to “ban it.”
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Asked about what he plans to do to make childcare more affordable, Trump invoked his daughter Ivanka—one of the few women in his life he hasn’t had vile things to say about—while referring to the increase in the Child Tax Credit during his first term, and conveniently left out the part about how it disproportionately benefited high-income families. He also said he wants to bring down corporate taxes, because of course he does, and then vaguely claimed he’s going to “readjust things so that it’s fair to everybody.”
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Perhaps his weirdest answer was in regard to in vitro fertilization. First, he bizarrely and creepily told the audience, “I’m the father of IVF.”
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Then he told a story about Alabama senator Katie Britt—whom he described as “young” and “fantastically attractive”—calling him up about the issue, and needing to explain to him what IVF is. (The call, he says, came after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, which happened in February 2024, meaning the “father of IVF” only learned what IVF was this year.)
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Elsewhere, over the course of the evening, the former president unsurprisingly told more than a dozen lies about everything from the Haitian immigrants living legally in Springfield, Ohio, to his infamous border wall. Are you loving him now, ladies?
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