Trump praises men for ‘allowing’ their wives to attend MAGA rallies without them

While his polling with women begins to sink, Donald Trump praised his supporters’s husbands for “allowing” their wives to attend his campaign rallies without them.

“Somebody said, ‘Women don’t like Donald Trump,’” he said from a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on August 30. “I said, ‘I think that’s wrong. I think they love me.’ I love them.”

He pointed to a group of women from North Carolina who have traveled to 227 rallies.

“They’re wealthy as hell. Look at them. They’ve got nothing but cash,” he added. “Their husbands are great. But they allow them to go all over the country.

The former president then recalled asking their husbands how they “put up” with their wives going on the road.

“How do you put up with this?” he said he remembered asking them at one point. “Your wives are traveling all over the place. Do you mind?”

“‘We trust our wives, sir,’” Trump recalled the men telling him. “We trust them implicitly.”

Trump said the women are “always perfectly coiffed.”

“They’re always perfectly coiffed, right? They’re beautiful,” he said.

Despite Trump’s claims that women “love” him, the gender gap is widening between Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, according to the latest polling from ABC News/Ipsos.

Within the week after the Democratic National Convention, Harris is leading by 13 points among women, at 54 percent to 41 percent. White women — a key demographic that helped carry Trump him to victory in 2016 — have gone from 13 points up for Trump to a virtual dead heat, with Trump up by 2 points, within the margin of error, according to poll results.

Separate polling from The New York Times/Siena College also finds that a growing share of women — up to 22 percent from 17 percent earlier this year — say that