Kayla Moore, wife of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, spoke during a “Women For Moore” rally in Montgomery, Ala., last month. Most white women in Virginia — 51 percent — backed Republican Ed Gillespie, whom Trump endorsed, in the state's gubernatorial race. Surely, many of the same factors that motivated white male Romney supporters played into the decision-making of white female Romney supporters. (To be clear, I am not suggesting that white women vote Republican because their husbands do. But in the Trump era, election results are increasingly showing that white women may not be the swing voters Democrats once believed.

Source: Washington Post December 06, 2017 20:53 UTC