… Polls during Donald Trump’s presidency consistently show a huge gender gap, with women routinely expressing more negative views than men of Trump’s performance, and a greater preference for Democrats in Congress. Big segments of the female population — including African-American, millennial and college-educated white women — are displaying towering levels of discontent with Trump.
Yet that overall advantage for Democrats masks a continuing problem among one key group of female voters: white women without a college education. Strong support from those blue-collar white women was key to Trump’s victory in 2016, particularly in decisive Rust Belt states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
While polls indicate the Republican position among those women has weakened since 2016, surveys still consistently show more of them prefer the GOP than Democrats for Congress in 2018. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN