The mainstream media breathlessly predicted for months that abortion would drive out moderate and independent women to vote, warning that Kamala Harris was certain to take states where it was on the ballot in two battleground states. Harris’ entire campaign gambled on this being accurate; her platform consisted of really just two things — abortion and hating Trump.
Instead, the exact opposite happened. Women showed up to vote alright, but they showed up to vote for Trump. According to a Fox News exit poll, white women supported him by a substantial 7 points, 53% to 46%. Women without a college degree supported him by 4 points.
Both the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada went 6% for Trump despite radical abortion measures being on the ballot. In all ten states that had abortion measures on the ballots, voters supposedly voted for abortion but also for Trump. No one really believes these abortion measures passed, honestly. In Arizona, petition signature gatherers were caught many times on video lying to get voters to sign so Prop. 139 would make the ballot, saying things like abortions were illegal in the state so women have to go to Mexico to get them. The campaign was full of all kinds of dishonesty, including ads stating that abortion was banned when it was really legal for 15 weeks.
There’s never been any real evidence that abortion........