Pennsylvania’s women voters could decide November election

The state’s women voters will be a decisive element in the upcoming electoral process. Both candidates are aware that their fate will depend on the votes of suburban women across Pennsylvania.

A recent Quinnipiac Univesity poll showed Biden leading Trump 60 percent to 37 percent among white women in Pennsylvania.

Polls show Trump trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, a key swing state that the president won in 2016. The FiveThirtyEight aggregate shows the former vice president up by 7.2 percentage points.

Women voters’ voting intentions represent a concern for President Donald Trump

In a recent rally in Johnstown, the president technically begged for the support of female voters in the Keystone State. “Suburban women: Will you please like me?” he asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?”

Women voters: a key role

Nationally, CNN reported that recent polling has Biden up by 25 points among women voters. According to the final 2016 pre-election polls, Clinton won women voters by 13 points among likely voters and 14 points among registered voters.

The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University has been tracking gender differences. The goal is to see how these differences support for the major-party candidates.

The center’s website notes a 23-point edge for Biden among women voters nationally in a recent ABC News-Washington Post poll. The center also noted the commanding lead Biden has among women in the recent Quinnipiac University poll.

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Trump has tried to win over suburban women by saying he would uphold “law and order” and warning that Biden would “destroy” suburban communities with low-income housing.

However, at the volunteer rally in Jenkintown, Deborra Pancoe said she does not see that rhetoric works for suburban women voters in 2020. “Honestly I don’t think anyone in these suburbs really buys that. I think people are appalled with his behavior and some of the words that are coming out of his mouth,” she said.