Trump is 'losing women voters' badly — here's why it may get even worse

Although many national and battleground state polls are showing a very close presidential race, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris clearly has an advantage among female voters.

An NBC News poll released on September 22, for example, showed Harris with a 5 percent overall lead nationally but with a 21-point advantage among women.

According to The Nation's Joan Walsh, Trump has a major problem among women voters — and it isn't getting any better.

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During a late September appearance on The New Republic's podcast, Walsh told host Greg Sargent, "I'm sure he's freaking out. He knows he's losing women voters."

Sargent noted that Harris has a "huge lead on protecting abortion rights" — a major issue among female voters. And Walsh emphasized that anti-abortion laws are not only imperiling women seeking abortions — they are also dangerous to women who planned to become pregnant but suffer pregnancy complications.

"At the Democratic convention," Walsh told Sargent, "I had the honor to sit with a group of women who had all been through some kind of miscarriage, near-miscarriage nightmare with a pregnancy that they wanted but couldn't carry to term. Almost died, almost lost their reproductive capacity…. I think that women get that it is health care. It is our health care."

Walsh added that Trump fails to grasp how much damage the overturning of Roe v. Wade has been inflicting.

Walsh told Sargent, "It is truly demented…. I don't know what he thinks he's doing with this…. He's got a backwards-looking mind."

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Greg Sargent's full interview with Joan Walsh is available below or at this link.