As Steve Kornacki of NBC News explained Monday, the polling gender gap between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is "off the charts." New polling by NBC shows a 58-37% split with women favoring the Democrat in the presidential race, but men back the Republican candidate 52-40%. Taken together, that's a shocking 33-point gender gap between men and women.

This is hopeful news for a few reasons. Harris leads with women more than Trump leads with men, pushing her ahead in the national poll. Women tend to vote more than men and, in fact, have turned out in higher numbers in every presidential election since 1980. There's every reason to believe that trend will continue, as concerns about abortion bans continue to activate female voters in large numbers. In light of this and his myriad personality disorders, it's not a surprise that Trump is screaming at women voters like he's accusing a soon-to-be-ex-wife of ingratitude.

"You will be protected, and I will be your protector," said Trump, who was found liable for sexual assault by a jury in 2023. In a tone that sounded like he was trying to hypnotize female voters, Trump instructed, "You will no longer be thinking about abortion." He then whined, "That's all they talk about, abortion" and "The fake news keeps saying women don’t like me."

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Alencia Johnson, a former advisor to President Joe Biden's campaign, reacted on CNN with, "So disgusting" and noted the diatribe reminded her that Trump is a "predator." Jonathan Chait of New York magazine wrote that Trump "sounds like a domestic abuser," who is gaslighting women by telling them their concerns about abortion rights aren't real. "It's like he's talking through the locked........

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