Donald Trump Triples Lead with Male Voters

The 2024 presidential election gender divide appears to be growing, with a new poll showing that former President Donald Trump has recently tripled his national lead among male voters.

A poll released on Wednesday by The Economist/YouGov showed the former president with a 52 percent to 43 percent lead over Vice President Kamala Harris among men. The 9 percentage point gap was three times larger than a 3-point advantage Trump had in the same survey last week when the ex-president was leading with men by 48 percent to 45 percent.

While Trump is enjoying a lead among male voters, the same polls show that Harris has an even bigger advantage among female voters, with her lead also appearing to grow less than two weeks before Election Day. Harris was leading Trump by 53 percent to 40 percent among women in the new poll, up from a 52 percent to 42 percent lead last week.

Newsweek reached out for comment to the Trump and Harris campaigns via email on Wednesday evening.

Men wearing t-shirts that read "The MAGA Boyz" are pictured at a presidential campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on August 30, 2024. A poll released this week shows that Trump... Chip Somodevilla

Harris was leading Trump among all registered voters in the new poll by a slim 48 percent to 46 percent margin. Another 3 percent of voters said they were undecided, 2 percent said that they would back another candidate and 1 percent said they would not vote.

The poll released on Wednesday was conducted online among 1,422 registered U.S. voters between October 19 and October 22. It has a 3.2 percent margin of error. Last week's poll had a 3.1 percent margin of error and was conducted among 1,457 registered voters between October 12 and October 15.

Other polls have also indicated that Trump is maintaining a substantial lead among men and that Harris has a clear lead among women, with a large gender divide seen nationally and in nearly all of the seven crucial battleground states.

Recent data from Google has shown that web searches for the term "bitch" shot up by 1,000 percent after Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, with derogatory and sexist rhetoric aimed at Harris dramatically increasing amid this year's election.

"A 1,000% rise, it's huge," Kelly Dittmar, professor and director of research at Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, previously told Newsweek. "When women run for office, they face harassment and negative treatment done in gendered or sexualized ways."

"Women are going to be more likely to be called a 'bitch'... to diminish their seriousness and mobilize those who agree," she added.

Harris rejected the idea that sexism was a major factor in the race during an interview with Hallie Jackson of NBC News on Tuesday, while pointing out that "there are men and women" at all of her campaign events.

"My challenge is the challenge of making sure I can talk with and listen to as many voters as possible and earn their vote," Harris said. "And I will never assume that anyone in our country should elect a leader based on their gender or their race.

"That leader needs to earn the vote based on substance and what they will do to address challenges, and to inspire people to know that their aspirations and their ambitions can and will be achieved through the opportunity to do that," she added.