How Trump changed the way US women vote

A decade after his infamous Access Hollywood tape, the gender divide is again shaping a pivotal midterm election A decade ago, Donald Trump’s improbable presidential campaign was rocked – and nearly derailed – by the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape, a 2005 recording in which the real estate developer turned reality TV star boasted about kissing and grabbing women without their consent.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he said, a remark he later downplayed as “ locker-room talk ” before musing that the tape might be fake . ( It wasn’t .) ‘Of course I’m the underdog’: the British former spin doctor trying to turn California red A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see? Most Americans don’t know Hasan Piker.

The rest say he is changing this year’s elections Trump campaign ads paid with public money violate federal law, critics say Trump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn What Democrats are getting right – and wrong – in run-up to midterms: ‘We can’t just be anti-Trump’

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