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Article snippet: The White House’s stumbling response to domestic abuse allegations against ex-staff secretary Rob Porter risks widening the gender gap already hurting Republicans in this fall’s midterm elections. Republicans are worried about the developments, while Democrats are salivating over the most recent Trump controversy involving women. “It’s harder to hold their majority without winning moderate suburban suburbs,” said former Rep. MORE (D-N.Y.), who led the House Democrats’ campaign arm in 2014. “They can’t win those districts by losing women. And they lose women by constantly reaffirming a narrative that they’re on the wrong side of abuse and sexual harassment.” Trump actually won a majority of the votes from white women in the 2016 election, taking 52 percent of their support according to exit polls. But just 38 percent of white women approved of Trump’s job performance in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday and conducted before the allegations against Porter became public. Since Porter’s resignation, Trump has praised his former aide and more broadly criticized the “Me Too” movement that has led to allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against powerful men in politics, business and entertainment. On Saturday, he tweeted a defense of people whose “lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation,” all while making no mention of Porter’s two ex-wives who accused him of physical abuse. Jennifer Willoughby, one of the ex-wives, said ... Link to the full article to read more