The lead-up to the 2024 election seemed to portend a historic gender gap in the results, with women assumed to swing heavily to Harris while men would leap to Trump.
"Heightened concerns about reproductive rights, ignited by the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, kickstarted a widening of the gender gap as women flocked to support Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections," reads one Politico analysis released in August. "The current presidential matchup—featuring the vice president's historic candidacy and Donald Trump, who is viewed very unfavorably by women—appears to be supercharging this trend."
