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‘Gender Chasm’: GOP Panics Over Huge Harris Lead Among Women as Trump Chases ‘Bro Vote’

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With just 62 days to go until Election Day, GOP analysts are in panic mode over Vice President Kamala Harris’s strong, double-digit lead among women, as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been unable to stop his “free fall” and some fear an impending “gender chasm.”

Harris’s lead among women has doubled since the Democratic National Convention last month, jumping from six points over Trump to 13, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll published this weekend, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week. The Washington Post’s Susan Page reports their new poll puts Harris at 21 points over Trump.

“The real challenge right now for Republicans is whether they can perform sufficiently well among men to overcome the deficit among women. Given the prominence of abortion in this year’s race and Trump’s past statements about women, the traditional gender gap could become a gender chasm,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres told The Hill.

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A senior Senate Republican aide added, “I’m not sure I know what to tell Trump to do to stop that free fall. He seems to be throwing out ideas on IVF but it’s a pretty deep hole.”

Last week, Trump appeared to appropriate ideas from Vice President Harris’s economic policies and from congressional Democrats’ legislation to help pay for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and to help parents of newborns pay for expenses.

Continuing his low campaign schedule from last month, Trump has skipped the traditional Labor Day campaign kickoff to the finish line, and is not slated to be campaigning until Saturday, although he will appear on Fox News for a town hall Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the Harris-Walz campaign on Tuesday began their Reproductive Freedom bus tour in the ex-president’s home state. They will travel from West Palm Beach and make 50 stops in battleground states across the country.

“The campaign said ‘reproductive rights storytellers’ will join campaign surrogates along the route to help emphasize the split screen on the issue between the Harris-Walz campaign and Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance,” ABC News reports.

E.W. Scripps reporter Forrest Saunders notes the bus made “at least one lap” around Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and resort.

Noting how Trump “spent the weekend walking back statements criticizing six-week abortion bans,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday, “Trump’s waffling stance on abortion is galvanizing Kamala Harris’ ‘reproductive freedom’ bus tour.”

Meanwhile, the gender gap appears to be widest among younger voters.

“It’s hard to keep up with all the polls right now, but this stands out from a recent NYT/Siena College poll: Among swing state women under the age of 45 – abortion rights has now overtaken the economy as their top voting issue,” notes MSNBC anchor Ana Cabrera, pointing to this New York Times article.

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“It’s the most startling thing I’ve seen in this year’s presidential campaign,” writes Steven Greenhouse in an opinion piece at The Guardian on Tuesday, “the astoundingly large gap between how young men and young women plan to vote this November. Among women under age 30, an overwhelming 67% plan to vote for Kamala Harris, while just 29% say they’ll back Donald Trump. But among young men, a majority – 53% – plan to vote for Trump, while 40% say they’ll support Harris, according to a New York Times/Sienna College poll. That’s an astonishing 51-percentage-point gender gap.”

“Trump isn’t an icon of positive masculinity,” Greenhouse adds, warning: “He also did very little for young men during his four years as president.”

On Friday, The New York Times reported, “a constellation of YouTubers, pranksters and streamers who influence young men is helping Donald Trump win the bro vote.”

The “Trump campaign has been aggressively courting what might be called the bro vote, the frat-boy flank. It’s a slice of 18-to-29-year-olds that has long been regarded as unreliable and unreachable, but that Republicans believe may just swing the election this year.”

“To find them, Mr. Trump and his allies have been exploring deep into the universe — a manoverse — of social media stars with male-centric audiences: the Nelk Boys, Mr. White and U.F.C., Dave Portnoy and his Barstool Sports media network, YouTubers like Jake and Logan Paul, podcasters like Theo Von and streamers like Adin Ross.”

Democratic strategist and pollster Matt McDermott on Wednesday warned: “While polls may seem volatile, they are actually painting a very clear picture: seven states in this country — PA, MI, WI, NC, GA, AZ, and NV — will each be decided by a few thousand votes, out of millions of votes cast.”

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Suspect Arrested in J6 DNC and RNC Pipe Bomb Case: Report

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Nearly five years after pipe bombs were discovered near the offices of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the Republican National Committee headquarters on the night before the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the case.

“The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege,” according to the Associated Press. “The arrest took place Thursday morning, and the suspect is a man.”

The AP notes that the FBI has received hundreds of tips and reviewed tens of thousands of video files.

Citing sources, MSNOW’s Carol Leonnig reports that the “suspect was identified in a fresh review of old evidence and could have possibly been arrested years ago.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell to Request to Be Freed From Prison

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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has filed court documents seeking to be released from prison, reportedly “throwing a wrench” into the Justice Department’s efforts to release “scores” of files released to her case.

“Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Epstein counterpart, wrote in a letter filed Wednesday in federal court that she plans to soon file a court petition challenging her detention, a long-shot bid that, if successful, could result in a new trial,” The Hill reported.

Maxwell’s attorneys “said Maxwell does not take a position on the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts,” but, “to do so could imperil a retrial if her challenge, called a habeas petition, prevails.”

The New York Times added, “Although the judge, Paul A. Engelmayer, previously denied a request by the Justice Department to release those documents, Ms. Bondi made her latest motion under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed by Mr. Trump last month.”

According to CNN, “lawyers for Epstein’s estate told the judge they do not take a position as to the unsealing of records given the government’s ‘commitment’ to redacting victim and personally identifying information.”

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Johnson Slammed After Timeline to Swear In Newest GOP Member Revealed

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is coming under fire after a report revealed he expects to swear in this week the newest Republican elected to Congress, Matt Van Epps, for whom Johnson campaigned. Van Epps won a narrow victory Tuesday night in a deep red Tennessee district. The move comes after Johnson most recently delayed seating Democratic U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona for 50 days.

Johnson offered an array of explanations for why he would not swear in Congresswoman Grijalva, who won her September election for a seat vacant since March but was not seated until November.

Among his reasons were that the House was not in session, there was a federal government shutdown, and her election had to be officially certified. Critics noted that other members-elect had been sworn in under similar circumstances.

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In October, The Guardian reported that Grijalva “thinks she knows the reason why Johnson is in no rush to administer the oath: in addition to co-sponsoring bills on the environment, public education and other issues she campaigned on addressing, Grijalva plans to provide the final signature on a petition that would force a vote on legislation to release files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein – which the speaker and Donald Trump oppose.”

Now, critics are blasting Johnson, after Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman reported on the Speaker’s expected timeline.

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“I was led to believe that waiting almost two months was customary and totally normal,” snarked Robbie Sherwood, communications director of the Arizona House Democratic Caucus.

“Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, the last member had to wait 50 days,” observed political commentator Molly Jong-Fast.

“Oh so he can just swear anyone in immediately if he feels like it,” noted Hemant Mehta, who writes the Friendly Atheist on Substack.

“Guess the speed of democracy depends on who you voted for and what they look like,” charged Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko.

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