WOMEN AGAINST TRUMP!

With increasing numbers of women coming forward with independent stories of sexual assault by Donald Trump against them, it appears that the New York real estate will perform poorly with that the nation’s largest segment of voters, women, on Election Day.

Political forecasters predict that the 2016 presidential election will have the largest gender gap in the nation’s political history, with large numbers of women that would normally vote for the Republican presidential nominee either casting a protest ballot or simply staying home because they are offended by the character and remarks of their party’s candidate.

One of the nation’s most popular women, First Lady Michelle Obama, recently castigated Trump during an election speech in New Hampshire, saying that his lewd comments about women were insulting and that all Americans should reject his personal and political rhetoric.

“It hurts,” she said speaking about Trump’s comments. “It is like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street, minding your own business, and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body.”

First Lady Obama, the mother of two young daughters, did not mention Trump by name but her audience of young and middle-aged women knew exactly who she was speaking about.  The Language used by Trump has been painful for so many of us, not just as women, but as parents trying to protect our children and raise them to be caring, respectful adults, she said.

“We have a candidate for the presidency who over the course of his lifetime has said things about women that are so shocking, so demeaning and I will simply not repeat any of them here today.  And last week we saw this candidate actually brag about sexually assaulting women. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I could not have predicted.”

The First Lady concluded her remarks by telling the story of a 6-year-old boy who said to his mother, “I think Hillary Clinton will be president because the other guy called someone a piggy, and you cannot be president if you call someone piggy.”

Even among evangelical voters there is a split regarding the morality of voting for someone who has exhibited the “tastelessness” of Trump.  “The idea of a monolithic evangelical voting constituency is no longer applicable, “said Samuel Rodriguez, Jr., who heads the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.  Mr. Rodriquez, whose organization represents about 40,000 faith institutions, refused to lend his support to the Trump candidacy.

Jen Hatmaker, a nationally known evangelical speaker from Austin who speaks to thousands of Christian women across the country recently called the Republican presidential nominee a “national disgrace” and suggested to her followers that they consider other people for president when they vote in November.

“Trump has consistently normalized violence, sexual deviance, bigotry and hate speech, she said. “ I would not accept this from my seventh-grade son, much less from a potential leader of the free world.”