Donald Trump Didn’t Really Win 52% of White Women in 2016

A majority of white women voted for Donald Trump: It's the statistic that launched a thousand narratives. "You know, I got 52% with women," President Donald Trump said at a press conference in late September, falsely conflating the figure for white women with the figure for women overall, whom he did not win. "Everybody said this couldn’t happen—52%.”

Trump is hardly the only one invoking the stat.