Donald Trump Jr. is warning men who support his father, former President Donald Trump, that early voting numbers are “not great for us” because many more women have cast ballots than men.
Out of approximately 62 million early ballots cast so far, at least 54 percent have been cast by women, while only 44 percent have been cast by men, according to NBC News. Polls suggest that women substantially favor Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
Trump Jr. lamented the early voting figures during an episode of his Triggered podcast on Thursday, while praising YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul for endorsing his father and pleading with younger men to not “sit out” the election.
“Jake Paul gets it,” Trump Jr. said. “He has over 20 million subscribers. So, hopefully you young men turn out, because I’m seeing, you know, there’s higher women turnout. That’s usually not great for us, on our side. Young men tend to sit it out at lot more.”
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While early voting numbers also show that a substantially larger share of Republicans have cast ballots early this year when compared to 2020, the voting gender gap is larger in some critical battleground states than it is nationally.
In North Carolina, women were outvoting men by 11 percentage points as of Thursday, while the gap was 12 points in Georgia and 13 points in Pennsylvania.
Women make up a larger percentage of the electorate and have voted at higher rates than men in every U.S. presidential election since 1980, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
This is a developing story and will be updated.