Daily Beast: “Two years after Hillary Clinton lost the election, she caught the ire of some voters (and later apologized) for insinuating that white women merely voted in line with the men they married. ‘We don’t do well with married white women,’ the former Democratic nominee said about her party in 2018. ‘And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” A Washington Post op-ed published afterwards by columnist Eugene Scott titled ‘Like it or not, studies suggest that Clinton may not be wrong on white women voting like their husbands’ pointed to scholarly evidence that explained why white married women do tend to vote conservatively.
Exit polling data from 2016 showed that white women indeed went for Trump over Clinton in critical areas like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. And while the midterm elections provided some gains for Democrats with that specific voting bloc, which was split evenly for down-ballot Democratic and Republican candidates, the 2020 election will be the first chance at the presidential level for the same women to perhaps influence the outcome in a different direction.”