… It has become conventional wisdom in 2020 that a Biden victory would be powered by women’s massive disaffection from Donald Trump. But the Pew findings show that something else is happening that calls this assumption into question, something that may shed light on the larger problem of sexism in the 21st century.
Joe Biden is doing about as well as Hillary Clinton did among women; the big shift is with men.
Forty-nine percent of men are supporting Joe Biden, compared to the 41% Hillary Clinton received. As in 2016, Black women are nearly unanimous in their support for the Democratic nominee, but Biden is doing 6 points better than Clinton among Black men. Among white men, Biden is doing 10 points better than Clinton did, compared to a modest 3-point gain among white women. CONT.
William A. Galston, Brookings Institution