2024-11-08
12 分钟Good morning.
It's Friday, November 8th.
I'm Shmita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, President Biden addresses the nation after major Democratic losses in the election.
What a town in Pennsylvania can tell us about Trump's appeal and the tiny precinct that finally ended prohibition.
But first, while millions of Americans are celebrating the reelection of Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic women in particular are wondering how much did gender play a role in the outcome of the election?
Elena Schneider wrote about this for Politico.
So as I spoke with Democratic women about the conclusion of the 2024 race, many of them could only really draw the bleakest and most demoralizing conclusion out of it, which is raising, again, this question of whether or not they were going to see a woman serve as president in their lifetimes.
Schneider spoke with about a dozen Democratic elected officials and strategists.
While many people say this election came down to the economy and Vice President Kamala Harris, ties to an unpopular incumbent, a lot of the women Schneider spoke with say the role of sexism can't be ignored.
The majority of the women that I spoke to said that, yes, all those things were true.
And sexism and racism are inextricably linked to our politics and to our culture.
And to deny that Donald Trump used gendered, sexist, and sometimes racist attacks, particularly on Kamala Harris, but throughout much of his campaign is to deny what we all saw.
And in some ways, that was obviously very energizing to some of the people who wanted to support him.
CBS spoke to several of Trump's female supporters ahead of Election Day and asked about some of Trump's comments toward Harris and other women.
He's called her lazy, stupid, a sleazebag.
Does that bother you as women?
Not a bit, no.
No.