Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is hemorrhaging support from white female voters, as this once supposedly locked-down voting bloc is now considering other candidates, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell warned Tuesday.
“Hillary Clinton is reaching out to that group that she had always counted on, white women voters, who are now abandoning her in droves during the last two months,” the cable news anchor reported Tuesday.
This supposed mass exodus has left Clinton’s campaign scrambling to find a way to win back a group that she has “always counted on.”
“This after seeing her support among white women in one new poll go from 71 percent in July to just 42 percent now, a 29 percent drop in only eight weeks as Clinton has been hammered with questions about her private emails,” Mitchell said.
In an effort to win back white female voters, Clinton has met with women business owners, and has even discussed her knowledge of certain pop culture icons, including Kim Kardashian.
Clinton’s overall approval rating has plummeted in recent months, as the scandal surrounding her use of a private, unauthorized email server when she worked at the State Department has dogged her campaign since she first announced in April.
The former secretary of state’s once unlikely Democratic primary contender, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has also closed on her in the polls. According to a recent poll by Monmouth University, Sanders is leading Clinton by seven points in the battleground state of New Hampshire.
“In what may surprise some observers, Sanders has an advantage over Clinton among both men (44 percent to 34 percent) and women (42 percent to 38 percent) in the New Hampshire primary,” the group said in a statement when it released the poll.
“Sanders leads Clinton among voters under 50 years old by 46 percent to 35 percent and voters age 50 to 64 by 44 percent to 34 percent, while Clinton edges Sanders by 42 percent to 35 percent among those age 65 and older,” the statement added.
(h/t Mediaite)
