Biden lays a trap for Trump in picking Harris, Paul Brandus writes (OPINION)
After months of speculation, Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old junior senator from California, is Joe Biden’s pick for vice president.
This is the moment the Trump campaign has been waiting for. In recent months, it has compiled dossiers on everyone Biden was considering. Now get ready for a ton of opposition research — “oppo” — to be dropped onto the media in an effort to undermine Harris. But there are two key differences: First, there are a lot more women in America. They are 54% of the electorate, an eight-point advantage. Second, in proportional terms, a bigger percentage of that 54% turns out to vote than of the smaller 46% of men. So in both absolute and relative terms, this is a double advantage for Democrats.
Much to the detriment of Republicans, this gap is accelerating. Women preferred Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by 11 percentage points in 2012. In 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 13 points , and, in the 2018 midterms, women backed Democratic congressional candidates by a stunning 19 percentage points . That’s why Nancy Pelosi, and not California Republican Kevin McCarthy, is speaker of the house, and it’s why Trump was impeached earlier this year.
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