wow, we had to sign this is incredibly like this is a driving you with free information. dw made for mind it's. it's just for days until americans choose the next president and women's issues are in the spotlight in the final phase of campaigning. it's the 1st presidential election since the historic supreme court ruling, but struck down nationwide portion rights become law harris says donald trump doesn't respect women. polls are pointing to an unprecedented gen the gap. so how will america's women decide i'm feel go in by then. and this is the day the

he will ban abortion nationwide. he will restrict access to birth control, put idea of treatments at risk. no, she lies about every se, ibm. she dies. i'm like the, i feel like i'm the father of i via he's playing does not respect the freedom of women. although i want to protect the people i want to protect the women of our country. where mississippi i'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not, i've gotta protect them. also on the day done is they've given billions to the trump and how his campaigns do in the white house to do the back of rich have too much influence of american democracy. we're going to be awarding a $1000000.00 every day from now until the election.

welcome to the day we're in the final that days and hours of the rest presidential campaign. tens of millions of ballots have already been cast them a record of the voting bowls. low have not bulged and pundits agree, but their base is still too close to pool. come low. his hopes to become the 1st female president in post, let's say the agenda gap in support for the 2 main pauses is more pronounced. and in recent election cycles, we made attempting to lean towards the democratic party in general and couple of harris in particular. many analysts believe that white women vote will determine whether habits or trump wins the white house. so we both sides, depending on a strong ton of irish seized on campaigning remarks by donald trump, that he will protect women, vice president as use this as an opportunity to one has supports us about mr. trump . some views on limited to remind them that bites on the ballot. and the 1st

presidential vote since trumps. the supreme court takes help to go back abortion rights. donald trump's not done, did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? that he will do what he wants, quote, and here's where i'm gonna quote whether the women liked it or not. he does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own. bob, this is the same man who said women should be punished for their choices. he's sampling does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what's in their own best interest. she's a low i q individual. she doesn't even know she's like, i'm telling you, this is not what you want for your president. that has nothing to do with me. this is not what you want. she's a very low i q individual. she's done as

a rock and you can have that. you can have that. so as we head into the last weekend before election day, let's bring it in. now washington bureau chief in his poll. welcome amos. so both campaigns trying to fire up that basis and went over and decided is trumps. a language about women likely to move the needle. what is clear of phyllis here that in these final days, all from really is focusing on the made of old where he has a significant support among not just white warders, but also latino and black men. he seems to be leaving his campaign seems to believe she can sway this coastal democratic by a speaking just very at this, respectfully about women. we just heard how he says we will, he will protect women and i for to be a whether they like it or not. and he also made really violent comments about this cheney calling her war hawk. and that she showed, and i quote that as well fired upon,

it's very uncertain in this type of race. so this really, this approach will gain in may of support or for the lady age lenny age of women. but what you can see here that the rhetoric is getting really more aggressive and violent during these last days. and so in this 1st presidential context, since the landmark of roe vs wade decision was overturned by the supreme court, which was 3 of donald trump's. how big judges, how big a role abortion might to play in this cycle? i mean from speaker in 2016, a 16 was partly because of the support from whites above and a women a group he may have lost following this supreme court. 2020 decision to overturn nationwide reproductive rights protections. you know, he tried to distance himself from this ruling over the last months, but many americans just know that it resulted from the judges. he pointed to the

supreme court. i feel during my travels across the country i really incompetent, encountered heartbreaking stories from women who are affected by these restrictive laws. this is my latest report. a nancy davis has 2 daughters summer who is 3 in baby starr who's just 5 months. so big a gap between them and she had planned by the pregnancy between the 2 girls turned into a nice in june 2022. she was a 10 week source and the fetus she was carrying was diagnosed with crania a fatal not. so i remember be released standing in a cold hospital room here in baton rouge, louisiana. my doctor walked in and he said this is the worst case scenario. they normally die in utah world. but if he or she makes 15 birth date, he or she would die within minutes. so he recommended an abortion to alternately

protect my health. however, due to louisiana's restrictive abortion loss, i was denied the carrier that i desperately need. then stephen public was their situation and got funding with the help of the bridge of the lines an organization would offer as practical support for people who need an abortion. she traveled 1400 miles to clinic and manhattan, new york for the procedure. you know, having to leave your kids, leaving your family behind just to access fundamental health care and going to a foreign place where i don't know anybody. um you know like it was one of the scariest things of my life. and i was emotional higher times like on a plane at the clinic. she stablished the foundation in her own name to support others facing similar situations to relieve louisiana in the deep

south and test for hi. here in the midwest, access to abortion has been sharply limited since the supreme court decision, but it's still positive. people like this come outside this clinic and dates and wanting to persuade women to not pass football oceans actually. right now the clinic even has security because of people protesting outside numbers. so what as election comes you'll see more and more people doing that. dr. catherine romano has, has been carrying out abortions here in ohio since 2013 analysis. many people coming from other states. i think that's the intention of a lot of these laws so that people will be confused that people will be scared and that there will be less abortions. we see patients from georgia, alabama,

arkansas, texas crossing state lines to get health care is incredibly stigmatizing. an abortion is a lonely decision as it is. so i think people who might have told a friend or a family member, if they were staying at home for their care, maybe are less likely to do so if they're traveling because it feels like they're doing something wrong. we ask her about the election kind of i think it's not good news for anyone with the uterus or who anyone who enjoys bodily autonomy. if donald trump is elected, i think she's been really angry about his own opinions, but i think the people around him are very clear that they want abortion to be an accessible. c c you are more and that's what tends to future

mores. nancy davis. good boy is when i when i think about my children going through the same thing, that id, or like my daughters going through the same thing that i do. it makes me angry. it makes me scary. i'm scared of what they looks like and it is very frustrating. and there's one of the reasons that i advocate it's very, very hard to prevent my children from going through it to prevent your kids from going through it a future generations to come from going through. the same thing for nancy's daughter is the choice of what they can do with their bodies may be decided on the election day. and as you've been traveling around the country this year, spoken to lots of women, what's your feeling about how women will decide whether they'll put cala harris over the line to become a man because 1st the minute present?

yeah, right. so it will really come down whole kind of more the rates, more people will it be donald trump or cumberland harris. and my feeling is that many women and but also a menu man war supportive of reproductive rights of kind of women and being able to say what's best for them that they know really what's at stake and that they are really, really eager to go out there and vote, and we saw for example, in the very important as being state of georgia, that many, many people are taking advantage of early voting possibilities and 60 percent 58 percent of them are a women. so that might indicates that the women voters fee motors are a little bit more kind of motivated to go forward. but you know, as the margins will be so small, it's so impossible really to say what the outcome will be on tuesday night.

will couple of hours isn't actually the only woman running for president a, a green party candidate, joe stein's on the ballot. the end around of 40 states, a democrats fear that mistake. good sized folks from harrison must win states like michigan, otherwise expect it to because she's been reaching out to michigan's logic out of american population, which is impacted supplies administration. so support with israel's voice in gaza will now coalition of european green pauses as courting on jo stein to drop out of the presidential race european dreams of move the basic elections taking place. i don't want to shed moments that criticizing donald trump is on the democratic of the danger. so the planets they say stein should endorse a comm law iris. saying this poll gildstone is very clear. she will not out how serious the feels that she could become a spoiler of a couple of hours. and now the fears are really

a big and as it just mentioned, like in spring starts like michigan, the significance of american population will be critical in the selection of many areas of orders are really disappoint, disappointed, visited by it and have is, is a policy. but that's not all a feeling many arab americans also just very conservative and they agree on trump is limiting the abortion access for example, or also agree on his policy, but it comes to attribute to q, riots on. so this is really a threats for the democrats that still stein might take away these couple of thousands of votes, reuben, which will, by the end of decide who will become the next president of the united states. and that's the reason why they're your pink green greens tried to reach out to us just stein and convince her that she drops out of the race to not kind of enable donald

trump to become the next president of the united states. and briefly in this with the election to expect it to be so close. how confident are you that it will be peaceful? well, that's a big fear that it will not be peaceful. i mean, i don't trouble writing. it kind of is putting out the news. if he's not winning that the election will be reached, we are expecting him to announce to be the winner in the middle of the election. i'd long before we really know we're really able to of a one this campaign into some of his supporters. so i just ready to fight and that's what he's putting, always remember when he barely got killed during this assassination attempt, what he did just jumped up and i kind of put his fist in the air saying 555. and this is kind of what resonates with many of the supporters when they think that the election is the stolen again from donald trump. so everybody here is prepared for

wireless. we are prepared. all colleagues are prepared. the police has prepared and handed in washington in the capital of the united states. we already see like shops um you know, putting up like wooden stuff in front of the windows. yeah. to get ready. so it might be really turning into a really very awful and dangerous time here in the united states, off to november 5th. great. thanks. sorry i missed you. this wasn't a bureau chief, it is both. we'll be talking to you in the days ahead as well. thanks, and the presidential candidate survey is more than a $1000000000.00 each and they selection cycle where they have a good deal of expense in the final phase of the campaign. so where did all that money come from and where did it go? and was it was it? the psalms are staggering. democrats and republicans combined to spend half

a $1000000000.00 on advertising in 2 weeks and october $81000000.00 raised by comma harris and a single day in july. a daily giveaways of a $1000000.00 from the law must pay the people who sign his petition, attracting the attention of the justice department. not to mention the $118000000.00 and counting that most has contributed to a trump allied group. but this campaign isn't just unprecedented in the huge sums raised and spent for the republicans. what used to be kept backstage a gentlemen's agreement, the campaign cash would be converted to a special favor as after the election is now literally out in front. even most trumps. biggest donor appears that is rallies gallery logic, and trump says he'll put most can charge of cutting, federal spending if elected for everyone. democrat and allied groups have their own mega donors to including bill gates who gave $50000000.00. harris often courts,

wall street and silicon valley donors. but her promises to backers have remained more traditional with no explicit favors made public. the harris campaign also relies on millions of small donors, people who give $200.00 or less to finance its operations. running for president has always been shockingly expensive. but campaign budgets have exploded in recent years from a few $100000000.19 to me nearly $4000000000.20. when the tale for this election comes in, it will be by far the most expensive in us history. the money flows from individuals and corporations to campaigns and political action committees or packs. individuals can only give a few $1000.00 to a candidates campaign, but can get around this by donating to packs which then give the money to campaigns . and corporations can only contribute to packs. to escape the limits. there is

a different category of so called super packs that can spend money to influence the election usually on advertising, but are officially not allowed to coordinate with the candidates campaign. the huge sums don't always translate into votes. however, starting about 10 years ago, the democrats have consistently spend more than republicans in 2016 hillary clinton out spent donald trump by about 2 to one, and yet she lost the biggest spend are also lost in 198496 in 2004 it is time around democrats have out spent republicans again on advertising for commer harris. while her poll numbers slid slowly down as the weeks went by ending in a virtual dead heat coming into the election to get votes. democrats are also poor and campaign money in the old fashion organizing efforts. that means trained

volunteers supervised by experience political workers knocking on doors and trying to motivate voters to actually go to the polls for their candidate, for the republicans have outsourced. most of that work to packs including mosques, a big gamble on inexperienced private groups, giving money to politicians because always a gamble that they will win. but this time around, the republicans have tried to frame that gamble as a simple investment and trey over him. trump has removed the guard rails, he had again telling you i musk that is money can guarantee him a job and explicitly promising a range of big businesses that he will help them out in exchange for donations, telling them in clear terms that their money will be well spent, as i said, rosalind coupon is chad of the political science department at the university of mary washington in virginia. if she studies the ways in which fundraising group supports women candidates,

welcome to dw the professor. i'm. we've been here for having a we've been hearing about a reco gender gap in this election cycle. how does that play out in the fundraising? are sure, well, i think a couple of things are important to recognize when we talk about campaigns and even campaign finance. right. the electro, the fault here in the united states still remains mail, right? so a majority of men are running for elected office and a majority of men also fun political campaigns. that said, with cumberland harris running is the democratic now many and certainly hillary clinton before her in 2016. we see women as a very capable fundraisers, right. we also see in terms of voting for women are more reliable voters in the united states than, than they turn out a higher rate to vote than men. and they are, of course,

registered is higher rates than man. no, it doesn't mean that all women are the same in terms of their preferences, but we do know that women are more reliable voters, and that is, it relates to political campaigns and funding them. women do participate one kid in raising money, or it rather and, and contributing money to campaigns and most the focus on is and actually has being on the presidential candidates. but what about other races, such as for congress, a don't as prioritizing getting more when do they like to, to just defeating incumbents with records that have like well, you know, i, i think it depends on the group that you're looking at. right. and so in our political system, we have no shortage of special interest. money groups with very clear preferences, either from a policy perspective and often from a partisan perspective. we do know in research that i've done takes a look at a,

the groups that support women candidates. there are more candidate support groups designed to support democratic women as in the party, not just favoring democracy. but if we look at organizations that exist, there are more in the space that exist to support democratic women, candidates compared to the republican counterparts. they are often arranged around the issue of abortion. and so one of the things that we're seeing in 2024, for example, is all of those factors coming together, right? you have a woman of color at the top of a typical ticket. on the democratic side, you have several key races in both the house and the senate featuring women candidates. and then you also have a portion on the ballot as a state matter in 10 states, including several swing states where it's viewed as a toss up. and so when you pull those ideas together, we see a very important space that women and money can occupy. and you talked about women

being reliable of voters, do candidates and need, well, you might call females centered policy. so it doesn't always come down to the bread and butter issues of jobs, health cap, the economy, those are women's issues, right? in the anything, particularly if we're thinking about issues related to health care issues related to the economy. and the like. these are important issues that all voters should be interested in. all citizens should be interested in. and certainly we would expect that women voters would be especially interested in them, right? everything from wages to cost of living as it relates to health insurance, because in this country, we do not have a nationalized healthcare, universal health care. the access continued access to health insurance to bring down costs is great. and also of course, the issue of abortion. and the broader idea of reproductive freedom and bodily

autonomy. ok, i was going to ask you about the importance of the so called women's vote for candidates. but just in the last week, it listened to various, i've learned people talking about how latino voters or black male voters. and that way from puerto rican voters might sway such a tight race one way or the other. so easily be useful to break down demographic groups in this way. when one does, if it doesn't just lead to people regarding them as monolithic in that thinking. it is certainly a challenge, right? when we think about groups of voters, we can look at aggregate political behavior. so how is it that voters who have certain characteristics have as a group? if you take women again, we've talked about this in the context of women are more reliable voters than men. they turn out at higher rates than and this is true across age. this is true across

party identification. but when we begin to unpack that, so the marital status of women, for example, we know in the 2016 election, for example, when hillary clinton ran as the democratic nominee, another woman at the top of the ticket, white married women, a majority of them voted for donald trump and so when we started thinking about the general behavior of voters that provide some insight, of course, as to how we can expect them to behave. but it is important to think about other characteristics like their education, their marital status, at least here in the united states. those are 2 important benchmarks. in addition, of course, to their party affiliation, fundraising analysis, and we thank you for it, professor. i political science system. i've also been cooperman and the university of mary washington. thank you so much. pleasure. and i'm not supposed today you can follow the team on social media at dw news. alexis headlines,

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