Bruce Nyman

President Donald J. Trump? Let’s ask women.

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Well: Every Republican who has won both the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, like Donald Trump just did, went on to win the party’s nomination. Improbably and against all odds, Donald J. Trump is now the favorite to become the nominee at the Republican convention in Cleveland in July.

But is there any possible way he can win the general election, in November, when everybody, everywhere gets to vote? Perhaps. But only under one condition: that he is able to repair and rebuild his relationship with the majority of America’s voters — women, who always vote in greater numbers than men. Sixty-four percent of women vote in presidential years, compared with only 59 percent of men.

And Trump has a real problem with the opposite sex. A recent poll showed that almost 65 percent of women voters have an “unfavorable” impression of The Donald. Most women don’t really like him.

It started last August, at the first Republican debate, when Fox News’s Megyn Kelly asked him about his habit of calling women he didn’t like “fat pigs . . . and slobs.” We soon learned that The Donald had also concluded that the famous model Heidi Klum was no longer a 10.

Then he attacked the Republicans’ only female candidate, Carly Fiorina. “Look at that face!” he trumpeted. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”

With women voters everywhere, it’s been a downhill ride ever since.

Trump’s political team of spin doctors, media mavens and communication consultants must be in high gear now, desperate to change the perception that he is “anti-women.” I can hear it now. A top-level meeting of his closest advisers and campaign managers, in his penthouse at Trump Tower, trying to spin their way out of it. Let’s listen in:

“Trump? Anti-women? That’s nuts. He just said, ‘I cherish women.’ Hey, Donald Trump loves women.”

“He loves everything about women. Why do you think he’s been married three times?”

“This is clearly a man who can’t get enough women.”

“That’s it, then. That’s the new slogan: ‘Donald J. Trump Loves Women.’”

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