WASHINGTON: The Republicans have clearly overplayed their 'Trump' card as the millionaire presidential hopeful takes the country by storm with his racist, misogynistic and violent campaigning. Not one to mince words, Donald Trump has made his views about women abundantly clear with his prolific insults and personal attacks on prominent female figures.
However, his recent feud with challenger Ted Cruz saw him descent to a new low, which wasn't deemed possible, as he took a dig at the Republican nomination's wife. Trump tweeted a picture of his third wife Melania, a former model, next to an unflattering photograph of Cruz's wife Heidi with the caption, “The images are worth a thousand words.” The image got the worse of Cruz as he hit back saying “Leave Heidi the hell alone. It is not acceptable for a big loud New York bully to attack my wife.” This is not the first time Trump stooped to win an argument. With his nasty, degrading comments on the opposite sex, women might even be the reason of his downfall. A CNN/ORC poll has revealed that 39 per cent of Republican women have an unfavourable opinion of Trump. Another poll by Quinnipiac University found out that 60 per cent of women would “definitely not” vote for Trump.
A Republican strategist, Katie Packer called Trump “incredibly sexist and misogynistic”, adding he would be “catastrophic” for the Republican Party. She said Trump would need to win 85 per cent of the white male vote to overcome his level of unpopularity.
Trump won Florida, but lost Utah. If he loses Wisconsin, he cannot get the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the Republican nomination outright, Packer said. "We have a big plan to push hard in Wisconsin," she said. Trump denies being sexist. He told CNN this week that some of his remarks were just "show business" and claimed he would be better for women than Clinton. "Nobody respects women more than I do," he said. But while he does have more success among men, Trump does not categorically do poorly with Republican women. He won the highest percent of women's votes in 11 of the first 15 Republican primary and caucus nominating contests, according to ABC News' exit polls.
In Missouri and Massachusetts, he got 46 per cent of women's votes, and 45 per cent of the female vote in Nevada. Vicky Reckart, who used to run a cleaning service but is now on disability benefit, said she is voting for Trump, but has started to question why. "I'm telling you, he has my vote right now," she told AFP in Atlantic City, the gambling resort town in New Jersey. "But there's a lot of thinking about it, it's a little scary," she added.
