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Article snippet: MORE’s support among women plunged this month as he battled controversies surrounding alleged affairs with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, according to a new poll. Support from women fell from 41 percent to 35 percent in the new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, even as Trump’s support among men rose 3 points to 53 percent. Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll co-director Mark Penn said the growing gender gap in the poll is the result of the “Stormy Effect.” “While President Trump’s overall ratings are stable, his support increased among men and dropped among women,” Penn said. “This poll was taken right after the Stormy Daniels interview and so I think this increased gender polarization is the ‘Stormy Effect’.” In a highly rated “60 Minutes” interview last week, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, detailed an affair she says she had with Trump in 2006, when Melanie Trump was pregnant with their youngest son. Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 just before the 2016 election to not talk about the alleged affair, raising questions among election lawyers about whether the payment violated campaign finance laws. Trump denies the affair and Cohen says that neither Trump nor the campaign knew about the payment. Still, 58 percent of those surveyed said the special counsel should investigate it. McDougal has also been speaking out about an affair she says she had with Trump around he same time. Overall, t... Link to the full article to read more