ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump slapped adult film actress Stormy Daniels with a demeaning new nickname on Tuesday [10-16-18], making her the latest of several prominent women whose personal appearance he’s insulted. Trump derided Daniels as ‘horseface’ in a tweet gloating over a judge’s Monday dismissal of a defamation lawsuit Daniels, represented by her lawyer Michael Avenatti, had filed against the president…The epithet, which caused an uproar on Twitter and cable news, also unsettled some of the president’s Republican allies, who are nervous about the president alienating women in the weeks before the November midterm elections. Trump has spent much of the past two days ridiculing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in terms that some critics call sexit. And less than two weeks ago, Trump publicly mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who accused his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of teenaged sexual assault.”
–Gabby Orr and rebecca Morin, “Trump’s new fights with women stoke GOP concern about female voters,” Politico, October 16, 2018 4:38 pm