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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino

How Trump changed the way US women vote

A woman scratches her head while voting behind a cardboard booth reading
The Maryland state primary election at a polling station in Annapolis, Maryland, on 14 May 2024. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

A decade ago, Donald Trump’s improbable presidential campaign was rocked – and nearly derailed – by the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape, a 2005 recording in which the real estate developer turned reality TV star boasted about kissing and grabbing women without their consent.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he said, a remark he later downplayed as “locker-room talk” before musing that the tape might be fake. (It wasn’t.)

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