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Where do Donald Trump and Joe Biden stand on women’s issues?
This appeared in The Millennial Source
As the 2020 election approaches, President Donald Trump and his likely challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, are working to set themselves apart from each other.
Trump and Biden agree on little, but one of their largest divides is on issues pertaining to women, particularly reproductive rights and domestic violence.
Regardless of where Trump and Biden stand, this election will likely be a difficult choice for some women, as both men have been accused of sexual assault and inappropriate touching.
The political divide between men and women
To group voters of any gender or race into one monolithic voting bloc is always dangerously reductive, but study after study has found that there is a significant difference in the issues that matter most to men and women.
A survey during the 2018 midterm elections found that there were a number of issues that women were more likely than men to deem critical, including healthcare, gender equality and race relations.
Likewise, when asked which issues were the most important, men (24%) were more likely to cite the economy and jobs over any other issue, while…