{"id":79454,"date":"2026-10-02T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/how-trump-changed-the-way-us-women-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:55:49","slug":"how-trump-changed-the-way-us-women-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/how-trump-changed-the-way-us-women-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump changed the way US women vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after his infamous Access Hollywood tape, the gender divide is again shaping a pivotal midterm election<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, Donald Trump\u2019s improbable presidential campaign was rocked \u2013 and nearly derailed \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a star, they let you do it,\u201d he said, a remark he later downplayed as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/oct\/08\/donald-trump-tape-quit-republicans-lewd-comments\">locker-room talk<\/a>\u201d before musing that the tape <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/nov\/29\/denying-accuracy-of-access-hollywood-tape-would-be-trumps-biggest-lie\">might be fake<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/04\/of-course-he-said-it-billy-bush-counters-trumps-pussy-tape-claims\">It wasn\u2019t<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/sep\/30\/california-governor-steve-hilton-race\">\u2018Of course I\u2019m the underdog\u2019: the British former spin doctor trying to turn California red<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/30\/ai-deepfakes-politicans\">A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/sep\/27\/hasan-piker-republicans-democrats-us-midterm-elections\">Most Americans don\u2019t know Hasan Piker. The rest say he is changing this year\u2019s elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/30\/trump-campaign-ads-violate-federal-law\">Trump campaign ads paid with public money violate federal law, critics say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/27\/trump-midterms-counting-window\">Trump allies could use midterms \u2018counting window\u2019 to disrupt results, experts warn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/27\/midterm-elections-democrats-yasmin-radjy\">What Democrats are getting right \u2013 and wrong \u2013 in run-up to midterms: \u2018We can\u2019t just be anti-Trump\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/trump-women-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after his infamous Access Hollywood tape, the gender divide is again shaping a pivotal midterm election A decade ago, Donald Trump\u2019s improbable presidential campaign was rocked \u2013 and nearly derailed \u2013 by the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape, a 2005 recording in which the real estate developer turned reality TV star boasted about kissing &#8230; <a title=\"How Trump changed the way US women vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/how-trump-changed-the-way-us-women-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Trump changed the way US women vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}