Barring another unprecedented shake up, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president. She would become the second woman from a major political party to be nominated. Vice President Harris’ dramatic ascent scrambles the 2024 race in any number of ways, but it may reinforce the political divide between men and women.
The last time a woman appeared at the top of the ticket, there was a double-digit divide in the voting preferences of men and women. Pew’s study of validated voters revealed a 13-point gender gap in voting preferences in 2016. Fifty-four percent of women voted for Clinton compared to only 41 percent of men. The gender gap shrunk considerably in the following presidential election when Biden replaced Clinton as the Democratic nominee—women supported Biden over men by only a modest margin.
It’s certainly conceivable that the gender gap could reemerge this year.
The 2024 Republican National Convention was orchestrated to showcase masculine strength…
