Donald Trump called “Fox & Friends” Friday morning and, in classic misogynistic fashion, attacked well-respected career diplomat Marie Yovanovitch as “the woman” over her testimony to Congress.
Transcript:
DONALD TRUMP: Look—the ambassador, the woman, she wouldn’t even put up, she’s an Obama person, you know—I said :why are you being so kind?” “Well sir, she’s a woman, we have to be nice.” She’s very tough. I’ve heard bad things. Oh, by the way when I was talking to President Zelensky—it’s right on the phone, you can read. He didn’t like her. He brought up her name and he didn’t like her at all. How do you have an ambassador, where the president, the new president (inaudible), because she was so wedded in.
It’s obvious by Trump’s incoherent rambling and hateful diatribe that he really hates women. It also very obvious that Yovanovitch’s tour de force impeachment testimony has the traitor occupying the White House very rattled.
Trump’s deplorable behavior only exacerbates the problems Republicans face with suburban voters, and particularly among women voters. Political analyst Bill Schneider predicted as much to The Hill’s Jamal Simmons, shortly before the GOP’s 40-seat wipeout during the 2018 midterm election.
"My gut is that you're seeing a lot of affluent, white suburban voters, well-educated, particularly women, fleeing the Trump party," Schneider said.
"They don't want to have anything to do with Donald Trump, especially now. They don't like him. They don't like his attitude. They don't like the way he governs. His signature attitude is defiance, that is what defines him, and that's very ugly."
After recently losing elections for the Virginia state house and governorships in Kentucky and Louisiana—losses that were driven, in part, by defections in the suburbs—a GOP operative offered the
New York Times a
very blunt assessment of the root cause of that party’s problems with this key voting bloc.
“If you had any doubt that Trump was a human repellent spray for suburban voters who have a conservative disposition, Republicans getting wiped out in the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisville and Lexington should remove it,” Tim Miller told the Times.
The Republican enabling of Trump is not going to end any time soon, as confirmed by the Senate
scheming to expedite Trump’s impeachment trial. Thus, the “
human repellent spray” will almost certainly be politically involved right up to Election Day 2020. The GOP’s self-destruction continues unabated, which is great news for Team Blue in the suburbs.