started supreme court ruling that struck down nationwide abortion rights become law . harry says donald trump doesn't respect women. polls are pointing to an unprecedented gen the gap. so how will americans women decide, i'm feel go in by then? 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 day ivy after she dies. i'm like the, i feel like i'm the father of ivy, a he's playing does not respect the freedom of women. and though i want to protect the people, i want to protect the women of our country. that's where mississippi on is whether i'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not, i've got to protect them. also on the day done is they've given

billions to the trump and harris campaigns to 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 us 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. complet harris hopes to become the 1st female president impulse to save agenda. golfing support for the 2 main parts. this is more pronounced than in recent election cycles. women attempting to lean towards the democratic party in general and couple of harris or in particular,

many on the list believe the white women folks will determine whether harris or trump wins the white house. so we both sides depending on a strong ton house. irish seized on campaign remarks by donald trump, that he will protect women, vice president as use this as an opportunity to one has supported about mr. trump some views on limited to remind them that that rights on the ballot. and the 1st presidential vote since trumps, the supreme court takes help to bowl 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 going to 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. bobby, this is the same man who said women should be 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 does it, even though 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 dumb as a rock and you can have that. you can't have that. so as we head into the last weekend before election day, let's bring it in. now washington bureau chief in his po, welcome is. 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, so from really is focusing on the made of old where he has a significant support among not just white rotors, 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 look forward to view whether they like it or not . and she also made really violent comments about this cheney calling her a war hawk. and that she showed an 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 or bush and 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 the supreme court 2020 decision to overturn nationwide reproductive rights protections. you know, he'd try to distance himself from this ruling over the last months, but many americans just know that it results from the judges. he pointed to the supreme court. i filled during my travels across the country. i really and colton 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 for 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 of title not. so i remember vividly standing in the co hospital room here in baton rouge, louisiana. my doctor walked in and he said this is the worst case scenario. they normally die in utero. but if he or she makes it through birth and 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 which offer as practical support for people who need an abortion. she traveled 1400 miles to clinic in 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 in motion and the entire time, 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 possible 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 watching comes,

you'll see more and more people doing that. doctor's catherine romano's 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 oscar 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 he'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 that that's the tension of future mores nancy davis boards. 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 very, very hard to supervisee my children and 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 america's 1st female? present a b r. right? so it will really come down who kind of motivates more people really be donald trump or coming to harris. and my feeling is that many women and, but also and then the man who are supportive of reproductive rights of the 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 be solved 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 all a women. so that might indicate that the women voters, female voters, 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, jill steins on the ballot. the end run into a 40 states, a democrat sphere that ms. stein could syfma folks from harrison must be in states like michigan. otherwise, expect it to because she's been reaching out to michigan's logic out of american population, which is unhappy justifies administration, so support israel's voice in gaza. well now coalition of your p in green part is, is quoted on jo stein to drop out of the presidential race,

european greens of move the basically elections taking place. a was a shed moment. the criticizing donald trump is anti democratic of danger. so the plan is, i say stein should endorse a come law iris. saying this poll, jill stands very clear. she will not out how serious the fee is that she could become a spoiler for a couple of hours. and now the fears are really big. and as it just mentioned, like in spring starts like michigan, the significance of american population will be critical in this election of many era of orders are really disappoint. disappointed visited by them have is, is a policy, but that's not all a fill in many arab americans. so also just very conservative. and they agree on drums 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's the tools stein might take away these couple of thousands of votes, real, which will by the end of decide who will become the next president of the united states. and that's the reason why the, your pain cream greens tried to reach out to joe stine and convince her that you dropped 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 a well, that's a big fear that it will not be peaceful. i mean, i don't trouble writing it kind of as putting out the news if he's not reading that the election will be written, we are expecting him to announce to be the winner in the middle of the election. i long before we really know we're really able to of

a one this come paying into some of his supporters thoughts just ready to fight. and that's what he's putting. always remember when he barely got a killed during this assassination attempt, what he did just jumped off and i kind of put his fist in the air saying, fight, fight, fight. and this is kind of what resonates with many of his 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 he ended 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 for that. so in this database, it wasn't a bureau chief, it is both. we'll be talking to you in the days ahead. as well, thanks,

and the presidential candidates of raise more than a $1000000000.00 each and they selection cycle where they have a good deal of expense in the final phase of the comp time. so where did all that money come from? 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 a 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. either on most trumps biggest donor appears that is rallies, hey gabriela ideas, and trump says he'll put most can charge of cutting federal spending if elected by 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. a campaign budgets have exploded in recent years from a few $100000000.00 in 1982, nearly $4000000000.20. from 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's 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 spent 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 important campaign money in the old fashioned 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 yet again telling you you are 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 a political science department at the university of mary washington in virginia. she studies the ways in which fundraising groups support women candidates. welcome to dw professor. i'm. we've been here for having a we've been hearing about a reco gen the 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 as higher rates than men. now it doesn't mean that of 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 we the elected old just defeating incumbents with records that

have like well i, 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 candidates 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 counter parts. 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 the 2 big 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 and, and states including several swing states where it's, you just a toss up. and so he pulled 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 michael, female centered policy. so it doesn't always come down to the bread and butter issues. a 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 of the access continued access to health insurance to bring down costs uh is great. and also of course the issue of abortion and the broader idea of reproductive freedom and bodily on time. 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 listen to various learned people talk about how black so you know, versus old black male votes is 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. what does, if it doesn't just lead to people regarding them as monolithic in that thinking?

there's 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 behave 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 start 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. fun and nice thing analysis and we thank you for it. professor, a political science system. i've also been cooperman and the university of mary washington. thank you so much. pleasure or not was today you can follow the team on social media at dw news. alexis headlines, of course, on the w dot com or on the d w. find out about if i'm being tied to on the defensive study part of your day with us. good day and a great weekend by the

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