Will women voters decide the 2020 election?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

In American politics, men have always occupied most of the seats of power. In addition to the United States never having had a female president, the makeup of both the House of Representatives and the Senate has remained slanted towards men. Even in the current 116 thCongress, which made history in 2018 by featuring the most female senators ever, only 26 of the 100 seats in the Senate belonged to women.

The lack of female representation in national politics is particularly interesting when considering that women make up more than 50% of the population and consistently vote in higher numbers than men.

Though women overwhelmingly supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump prevailed.

In 2020, Trump is polling even worse with women than he did in 2016, which raises the question: Will Trump’s deficit with female voters end up deciding the election?

Women voters for Clinton

In the immediate decades following women’s enfranchisement in 1920, women voters tended to align with conservative causes. However, over the course of the 20 thcentury, there was a substantial shift and, for decades now, women voters as a whole…