Donald Trump Jr. is warning men who support his father, former President Donald Trump, that early voting numbers are “not great for us” because many more women have cast ballots than men.
Out of approximately 62 million early ballots cast so far, at least 54 percent have been cast by women, while only 44 percent have been cast by men, according to NBC News. Polls suggest that women substantially favor Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
Trump Jr. lamented the early voting figures during an episode of his Triggered podcast on Thursday, while praising YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul for endorsing his father and pleading with younger men to not “sit out” the election.
“Jake Paul gets it,” Trump Jr. said. “He has over 20 million subscribers. So, hopefully you young men turn out, because I’m seeing, you know, there’s higher women turnout. That’s usually not great for us, on our side. Young men tend to sit it out at lot more.”
Donald Trump Jr. is pictured at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17. Trump Jr. warned male voters on Thursday that early voting figures don’t look “great for us,” since substantially more women have cast ballots than men.
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While early voting numbers also show that a substantially larger share of Republicans have cast ballots early this year when compared to 2020, the voting gender gap is larger in some critical battleground states than it is nationally.
In North Carolina, women were outvoting men by 11 percentage points as of Thursday, while the gap was 12 points in Georgia and 13 points in Pennsylvania.
Women make up a larger percentage of the electorate and have voted at higher rates than men in every U.S. presidential election since 1980, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
Trump Jr. also blasted President Joe Biden and Harris during the podcast for Biden’s “garbage” remark earlier in the week, saying, “Kamala Harris does not love Americans.”
Biden faced immense backlash for the remark after saying, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters … his his his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s un-American.” Biden’s comment was made in context of criticizing the racist and hate-filled remarks by speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
The White House then sent out a transcript of the grassroots organization Voto Latino event with Biden that showed an apostrophe in “supporter’s.”
“Kamala Harris keeps talking about how she wants to unify the country, but she thinks everyone watching this show is basically the enemy of the state,” Trump Jr. said.
Trump also capitalized on the Biden comment, as he appeared in a garbage truck on Wednesday while campaigning in Wisconsin. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,” Trump said to reporters ahead of his rally.
Update 10/31/24, 8:36 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional background.
