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Former US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton on Tuesday slammed her former election rival US President Donald Trump over attacking the peaceful protestorsat the Lafayette Square in Washington DC. Taking to Twitter, she stated that it was a "horrifying" use of presidential power against the citizens of the country. She further added that this act has no place anywhere.

The US Law Enforcement on Monday used tear gas, rubber bullets, and other tactics to clear out the peaceful protesters before the given curfew at the Lafayette Square in Washington DC so that Trump could take a photo in front of the St John's Church. While the curfew was 7 pm, the protesters were tear-gassed around 6:30 pm.According to international media reports, the law enforcement had given no warning and the firing was sudden. The protesters were protesting against the tragic death of George Floyd who was killed by a police officer.

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George Floyd's tragic death hasnot only angered millions across the world but it has also fueled a fresh wave of protests in various US states. Several protestors also converged outside the White Houseshouting "Black Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe". The focus of the protests is the alleged institutional bigotry and consequent brutalityin American police forces. Meanwhile, severalpolice squads have also joined the protestors in order to express their stand against police brutality and racism.

On Sunday, as many as40 cities and Washington DC across the United States imposed curfews in response to the continuing protests. According to international media reports, around 5,000 National Guard members have been activated in 15 states, as well as in Washington DC, along with 2,000 other members who are prepared to activate if needed. Meanwhile, around 4,000 people across the US States have been arrested during the protests.

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Police officer Derek Chauvin had handcuffed George Floyd and made him beg for breath after arresting him in Minnesota. In a video of the incident that went viral all over the social media, Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd's neck which resulted in hisdeath. According toCommissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (MDPS) John Harrington, the police officer has been fired from his job and has been takeninto custody by the criminal bureau. He added that a trial for the case will begin soon, with the officer facing third-degree murder and manslaughter charges.

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A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments this week from Hillary Clintons lawyer and Judicial Watch as the former secretary of state seeks to avoid a deposition about her private email server and the Benghazi attack talking points.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, argued Tuesday that the depositions of Clinton and Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, ordered by a D.C. district court judge was necessary to understand whether Clinton attempted to avoid the Freedom of Information Act when she improperly used a private server to conduct her State Department business and whether the agency adequately searched for all her emails.

It is certainly within the authority of the district court to hear from the agency head herself about whether there was intent," said Judicial Watch attorney Ramona Cotca.

Clinton wanted to short-circuit this process by using the most potent weapon in the judicial arsenal to prevent the district court from ever being able to reach a determination of whether there was ever an adequate search," Cotca said.

The FBI investigated Clinton's use of the server, hosted in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York, while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Although former FBI Director James Comey found Clinton was extremely careless in handling classified emails, no criminal charges were recommended against anyone following the bureaus "Midyear Exam" investigation. Clinton deleted 33,000 supposedly non-work-related emails.

Why is it that four years after the FBI closed its investigation that there are still additional Clinton emails that are being produced. Why were they not searched or produced or located earlier? Cotca asked, later adding, Even today, the State Department does not know what is the universe of Clinton emails from the State Department that is the significant issue here."

The Judicial Watch lawyer said deposing Clinton would help determine if she had tried to "thwart FOIA."

Clintons legal team asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus, a corrective order which would instruct the lower court to change its ruling ordering Clinton and Mills to be deposed. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said in March, "It is time to hear directly from Secretary Clinton."

We intervened in the case Secretary Clinton did when it became clear that her deposition might be an issue, said David Kendall, Clinton's attorney, who was also appearing for Mills.

Two of the three judges on the panel Obama appointee Nina Pillard and George W. Bush appointee Thomas Griffith stressed that issuing a writ of mandamus would be an extreme move. Pillard also claimed that Judicial Watch's concern about a leaky vessel during the State Departments search for Clinton's emails appeared unfounded."

Judge Robert Wilkins, another Obama appointee on the panel, asked: Why wouldnt it be relevant to depose Secretary Clinton or Ms. Mills to clarify who may have corresponded with either of them or in general about the Benghazi talking points?"

Kendall contended that the only relevant question was: Are there any more documents to produce?

The Clinton lawyer claimed that the real purpose" of the depositions "is harassment."

A State Department review of email practices of dozens of former agency officials and aides to Clinton found some instances of classified information being inappropriately introduced into an unclassified system. But investigators uncovered no persuasive evidence of systematic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.

Mark Freeman, the Justice Department attorney representing the State Department, said the Trump administration didnt support Clintons petition for mandamus.

The State Departments approach to all of these [Clinton] cases from the beginning has just been to get through them to respond to the FOIA requests, to push through any district court litigation, and to bring all these cases, and indeed the entire chapter, to a close, Freeman said, adding, "We have not asked this court to issue the extraordinary remedy of mandamus, and we have not supported the petition at issue here.

The virtual hearing stretched over an hour and a half. The appeals court will likely issue an opinion on whether they will be granting Clinton's request to avoid the deposition in the next few weeks.

Judicial Watch also wants to question Clinton and Mills about the talking points for former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice's appearances on television shows following the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Members of Ansar al Sharia launched a coordinated assault on Sept. 11, 2012, killing U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Clinton, Rice, and others incorrectly blamed the attack on a YouTube video.

Some of the Tuesday arguments were reminiscent of the debate over the Justice Departments move to drop charges against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Instead of immediately agreeing with that decision, D.C. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan appointed an outside amicus, after which the Flynn legal team pursued a writ of mandamus with the D.C. appeals court in an effort to force Sullivan to allow the case to be dismissed. DOJ lawyers weighed in in favor of mandamus in that case.

Cheryl Mills's attorney, Beth Wilkinson, is representing Sullivan in that case. Wilkins is on the three-member panel that will decide whether to grant mandamus.

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Barack Obama has a favorite saying on the campaign trail: Dont boo vote.

And young protesters, galvanized by police brutality and a rash of political disappointments, seem to be sketching out a present-day response:

Sure, maybe. But first, some well-directed fury.

Im tired. Im literally tired. Im tired of having to do this, said Aalayah Eastmond, 19, who survived the 2018 massacre at her high school in Parkland, Fla., became a gun control advocate, saw many legislative efforts stall and is now organizing protests in Washington over police violence against fellow black Americans.

Ms. Eastmond could be forgiven, she suggested, for doubting that the electoral system would meet the moment on its own: We do our job, she said, and then we dont see the people we vote in doing their job.

As nationwide demonstrations continue to simmer, interviews with millennial and Generation Z protesters and activists across racial lines reflect a steady suspicion about the value and effectiveness of voting alone. Their disillusionment threatens to perpetuate a consistent generational gap in election turnout, hinting at a key challenge facing Joseph R. Biden Jr. The former vice president, who announced Friday evening that he had earned a majority of delegates in the Democratic primary contest, has struggled to generate youth enthusiasm despite the demographics broad disapproval of President Trump.

To some degree, this dynamic has figured in political fights across the decades: Voters are disproportionately old; marchers are disproportionately young. (Even in the 2018 midterms, when youth engagement spiked compared with four years prior, turnout registered at about 36 percent for voting-age citizens under 30 and nearly twice that for those 65 and up, according to Census Bureau data.)

But the frustrations of todays younger Americans also speak to the particular conditions of the era, with a preferred candidate in the last two Democratic presidential primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, falling short twice and a sense that those in office have done little to stem a flood of crises.

The deaths of black people at the hands of law enforcement. The relentless creep of climate change. Recurring economic uncertainty this time amid a pandemic exacerbated by missteps across the federal government.

In an ideal world, all of these issues would be solved by going out and voting, said Zoe Demkovitz, 27, who had supported Mr. Sanderss presidential campaign, as she marched against police violence in Philadelphia. I tried that. I voted for the right people.

And this, she concluded, adding an expletive, still happens.

Democratic leaders are plainly aware of this perception and mindful that a stronger showing from Hillary Clinton among young voters four years ago probably would have turned her fortunes.

Some have moved in recent days to explicitly urge protesters not to overlook November.

In a post on Medium, Mr. Obama disputed the notion that racial bias in criminal justice proves that only protests and direct action can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time.

Eventually, aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices, the former president wrote, italicizing liberally, and in a democracy, that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands.

Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, suggested that protests were so valuable in part because they helped introduce new leaders to old systems. At 79, Mr. Clyburn still delights in reminding audiences that he met his wife in jail after a civil rights march in 1960.

I stayed involved, Mr. Clyburn said, and Im now in the United States Congress.

Some younger protesters do not dismiss this prospective path or the wisdom of voting, however grudgingly.

But they say several of the most stinging policy letdowns in recent years have come after nominal election successes.

In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio won office in 2013 with a pledge to dramatically reform the citys police culture, memorably showcasing his biracial family throughout his campaign. Through a recent stretch of demonstrations that included the arrest of his own daughter, Mr. de Blasio has largely defended the departments approach despite news accounts and videos of officers responding to peaceful protests with often striking aggression.

The mayors transformation has been so pronounced that I have trouble wrapping my head around it, said Ritchie Torres, 32, a Bronx city councilman now running for Congress.

For younger New Yorkers, he said, it was a reminder that electing ostensibly like-minded leadership was not enough. Young people rightly and clearly see the limitations of voting, he said, calling it a necessary but insufficient condition for political engagement.

Even Mr. Obamas White House tenure, made possible in large part by his strength with younger voters, has come in for mixed appraisals.

Evan Weber, 28, the political director for the Sunrise Movement, a group of young liberal environmental activists, cited the dissatisfaction among progressives his age over Mr. Obamas record on financial reform and some climate issues. People are turning to protest out of necessity, Mr. Weber said. We have grown up millennials and especially Generation Z with a system that has either delivered too little or not at all.

People of color have signaled a particular weariness with the implication that voting is a cure-all, especially given the scale of voter suppression efforts and other barriers to the ballot.

Jess Morales Rocketto, 33, a progressive strategist and former campaign aide to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, said the standard get-out-and-vote message tended to sound most palatable to people who were planning to vote anyway.

What were really wrestling with is not whether or not people vote but whether people believe institutions matter, she said. That disillusionment is actually about the fight for a generation of civic participation.

On that score, some academics say, the protests might help.

Daniel Q. Gillion, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, said that his research detailed in a recent book, The Loud Minority, about the importance of demonstrations since the 1960s showed that areas with meaningful protest activity often saw increased turnout in subsequent elections.

Whether younger Americans find a candidate to believe in is another matter. Jason Culler, 38, who also attended the march in Philadelphia, predicted that the current election cycle would not produce leaders who adequately reflected the crowds filling the streets.

Not this election, not the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party, he said. These people dont represent us, thats why were out here still fighting the same thing.

If nothing else, such persistence has proved a point, especially for certain participants.

Ms. Eastmond, the Parkland survivor, recalled the skepticism two years ago that she and other teens stirred to action by the shooting would remain as engaged in political activism as the months passed.

She does not hear those doubts so much anymore.

People were questioning: A lot of the people in that movement, where are they now? she said. Im here. Im just one person, but Im here.

Jon Hurdle contributed reporting from Philadelphia, and Isabella Grulln Paz from New York.

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Donald Trump is his own worst enemy

President Donald Trumps most dangerous adversary in the November election is not Joe Biden.

Its Donald Trump.

Trump just cant resist shooting himself in the foot. (Perhaps his bone spurs are acting up.) His wholesale negativity, impulsiveness, inattention to detail and love of personal insults, taunts and conspiracy theories aimed at nearly everybody and everything have eroded his chances to win reelection.

Obviously, he is losing women, African-Americans and immigrants, particularly Hispanics. Even younger evangelicals are having their doubts.

But his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and the general chaos of his presidency have alienated the particularly vulnerable elderly (23% of voters), who yearn for safety and stability.

His base is estimated to be 40% to 43% of voters. So he needs non-Republicans (read disenchanted Democrats), independents and other swing voters who helped him win in 2016.

But last time, voters who disliked his opponent, Hillary Clinton, helped tip the scales. Biden seems far more popular than Hillary. So, to coin a phrase, 2020 is a whole new ballgame. Or, as former Rep. David Trott, R-Mich., has said, 2016 was a perfect storm, meaning unlikely to reoccur.

Gordon Rowley, Wakefield

MLK would endorse message of Black Lives Matter

Since the death of Martin Luther King the white establishment has very effectively bastardized his message.

The message, often kept under wraps, is that racism, militarism and capitalism are the root causes of the darkness that has engulfed the United States of America. Until we address these issues there will only be more darkness.

King also spoke of urban riots that have and continue to engulf our country when he quoted Victor Hugo who said: "If a soul is left in the darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."

King also spoke to non-violence when he said "If you want Peace then work for Justice."

He also said, "Peace is not merely the absence of tension, but the presence of Justice."

Martin Luther King's message knows no time period, and if he were alive today he would be in the streets in the name of "Black Lives Matter." He would be calling out to the powers and principalities that spread the darkness. He would be shining his light.

Just as Martin Luther King, ours is to cast out this darkness. It's not too late, but only if we are willing to act.

Martin Lepkowski, Wakefield

Threat to teachers jobs is being forgotten

Hundreds of public school teachers across Rhode Island are facing layoffs as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to wreak havoc on state and local budgets, and state leaders are offering few clues on how much aid districts should expect for the fiscal year that begins next month.

These are the people who sacrifice their lives for our children and they can expect no help at all from the inept individuals who run the state.

We have a governor who praises demonstrators for not rioting, an inept mayor who cant control his own city, and United States senators and congressmen who are hiding.

It seems that these people are able to provide funds for everyone else in this state except for the people who can help control our future. And judging by what has taken place this past week, we need our teachers very badly. Our so-called governor and the rest of our local political leaders should be ashamed of themselves, and by the way, where is the outcry for justice for these wonderful people? Do they have to take to the streets looting, burning and attacking police officers to be heard?

It seems that is how we express our feelings today.

John Cervone, North Providence

Provocateurs, including Trump, to blame for violence

Much of the violence accompanying the legitimately angry demonstrations protesting racial discrimination in major cities across the country is attributed to hooligans and provocateurs, who undermine the legitimacy of otherwise peaceful, albeit angry, demonstrations. I experienced this in the 60s, participating in multiple demonstrations that were co-opted by extremist fringe elements, to the point that I became reluctant to participate in mass demonstrations.

However, provocateurs in particular typically operate under a cloak of secrecy not so our provocateur-in-chief, President Trump. His actions throughout this crisis have not only lacked compassion for the victims of discrimination and empathy for the anger of the African-American community, but have shamefully inflamed tensions. Why are our elected officials, especially Republicans, so accepting of his divisive behavior?

Martin Huntley, Providence

Woodrow Wilson doesnt deserve a glowing tribute

After watching the events of rage which have been unfolding over the past few days in America and then reading Daniel Harrington's glowing My Turn commentary on former President Woodrow Wilson (Woodrow Wilson radically transformed the nation, May 31) it led me to wonder just what kind of a rock has Mr. Harrington been living under?

Perhaps Wilson was not the most virulent racist to ever occupy the Oval Office but he's in the top two. When Wilson took office in 1912 there were numerous federal positions being held by African Americans. They were quickly cashiered. If in fact Wilson did not give the order to fire them he was most certainly complicit as most of them were terminated. In one instance a black man who held a critical job and could not be fired was forced to work in a cage so no white worker had to come in contact with him.

It was not only blacks Wilson despised. He also described Poles, Hungarians and Italians as "men of the lowest class." I guess Wilson must have thought so little of Jews and the Irish that they weren't even worth a scant centimeter of his bile.

Wilson was a true "Son of the South." He was a descendant of a Confederate soldier. When he was elected president there was jubilation in Dixie and huzzahs of "the South shall rise again."

Is Mr. Harrington aware that at Wilsons alma mater, Princeton, students have been agitating for his name to be removed from all buildings on campus? I am not attempting to be a revisionist and try to rewrite history but at some point, the sheet has to be taken off the looking glass and historical figures must be seen warts and all.

We are all entitled to our opinion on what constitutes a great man, but how prophetic the headline over Mr. Harrington's article "Woodrow Wilson radically transformed the nation."

Charles Sinel, Pawtucket

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Over three years into his tenure in the nation's highest office and five months before the country weighs in on his re-election, President Donald Trumps struggles with older women, an important voting bloc for November, appear more acute in the middle of twin crises.

In 2016, Trump tilted the election in his favor after narrowly winning a handful of battleground states, and partly by performing well among white women - and older voters - even against the first-ever female nominee. Four years ago, although Hillary Clinton won women overall by a 13-point margin, Trump only lost women over 45 by 3 points (47%-50%), and won over both white women and voters over 45 with 52%, according to national exit poll data.

But this cycle, Trump is not only trailing Biden nationally by 10 points among registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released earlier this week, hes also seeing waning support among women over 45. Biden is now leading Trump among this group by 17 points, compared to 9 in March, in the latest poll.

Lara Trump gives an interview after a gathering of Donald Trump for President Women for Trump coalition kickoff in King of Prussia, Pa., on July 16, 2019.

Its a hurdle that is emerging as the coronavirus pandemic ravages the nations seniors and Trump's "law and order" vision of leadership is up against its most critical test of his presidency as the country is engulfed by nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

In follow-up interviews with nearly a dozen women over 45, who span the ideological spectrum and geographic map, that participated in the ABC News/Washington Post poll, including some who formerly voted for Trump the first time around, most are turned off by his abrasive demeanor, divisive rhetoric and the tweets.

"I voted for Trump. I did not care for Hillary. She was just not the role model I wanted for the first woman president," said Shannon Gridley, 78, from Orlando, Fla. Orlando sits along Floridas crucial I-4 corridor in central Florida, which is often seen as a bellwether in the battleground.

A path to victory for Trump this cycle is expected to run through Florida, where older voters have an outsize role in the electoral fortunes of candidates in the state. In 2016, Trump won Florida by just over 1 percentage point.

Gridley, who said she identifies along the "moderate avenue," has been voting since the 1960s, starting with President John F. Kennedy. She is currently a registered Democrat and is voting for Biden in the fall, but has historically voted for Republicans far more, she said.

Behind her 2016 decision, as she put it, was the notion that as an outsider, Trump might "shake things up."

"Well, by god, he has shook things up, that is for absolutely sure," she said. "He disappointed me pretty soon. I didn't like the way he talked. I didn't think he was professional. I did not think he was presidential. I just haven't agreed with much of anything that he's done."

Another female voter, Donna, who declined to share her last name, from Springfield, Mass., which sits in the western portion of the state, told ABC News shes voted Republican in the last two presidential elections, saying of 2016, "I was not happy four years ago with either of the candidates, but Hillary Clinton was the worst of the two."

"I voted for Donald Trump and hoped that he would rise to the occasion," she said. "Obviously, he hasn't. He is a petulant, junior high mentality candidate, and I feel that our country can do far better than that."

She is now backing Biden in November, she told ABC News.

Elizabeth Vath, too, voted for Trump in 2016. But the 75-year old Republican from Glen Mills, Pa., is siding with Biden, she said, "because of the fact that I didn't see Trump do what he promised to do. I voted for Trump because I thought he was going to do something better for our country."

"Hes lying," she continued. "He doesnt keep his promises. He curses and he swears and the language just turns me off. Im sorry, but I was never brought up that way."

Pennsylvania was one of the three key battlegrounds that put Trump over the top last cycle, where he defeated Clinton by the slimmest of margins - 0.7 percentage points. It is also home to a majority female population, and one that also skews older than the country, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau compiled by the Pennsylvania State Data Center at Penn State Harrisburg.

Even a supporter of the president, who is voting for him in November, said she is repelled by what she sees as his immaturities and offensive language.

"I personally cannot listen to him on TV. There are a lot of times I would like to smack him and say, you know, your mother should have taught you better than to talk like that," Suzanne Sloane, 53, from Kalamazoo County, Mich., told ABC News in a follow-up interview. "I cringe ... I want a person who can stand up and support our values and support our country without getting down to a five-year-olds level of name-calling."

Demonstrators take a knee, June 2, 2020, in Philadelphia, during a protest over the death of George Floyd.

The Trump campaign did not respond to ABC News multiple requests for details about their strategy to bring this key demographic into the fold for the upcoming election.

Last year, the Trump campaign made its first major push for its "Women for Trump" coalition in August with a string of cross-country events to mobilize suburban women in key battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The campaign launched the coalition focused on courting the women vote in July 2019.

Suburban women, in particular, represent a key voting demographic that was once the bedrock of the GOP but has been shifting away from the party in the Trump era.

In the 2018 midterms, when Democrats picked up 40 seats and the House majority, women accounted for 53% of voters, voting for Democratic House candidates by 60-39%. In 2019, in statewide and local contests in Virginia, Kentucky, Iowa and Pennsylvania, Republicans saw an erosion of support among suburban voters - and women in particular - allowing Democrats to overcome the allure of Trumpism. And the results were costly for Republicans.

This opposition could continue into 2020, and would be particularly damaging in battlegrounds across the electoral map, where a small shift in support could sway a state.

With dual crises now at the forefront of Trump's presidency, most of the women over the age of 45 that ABC News spoke with in follow-up interviews view the unfolding events as ripely exposing the unsettling and disqualifying aspects of Trump.

"His whole way to address the COVID-19 has been, excuse me, a s--- show," Donna said.

"Trump has been doing a rotten job with health care as well as with the epidemic. We can only pray and hope and vote," Vath said.

Pamela Cooper, 62, from Kannapolis, N.C., which sits in the suburbs of Charlotte, is supporting Biden in the general election, after having voted Republican up until Trump, because she said, "I think that he is definitely promoting racism."

"The pandemic is scary enough without the rioting," she said. "The only way to fight all of this is with love and understanding and compassion...violence against violence never works. These are just scary, scary times and we need a new leader."

Lynda, a voter who decided not to give her last name, from Kent County, Mich., which covers Grand Rapids and its suburbs and sided with Trump by a three-point margin in 2016, said she is "not impressed with Trump. Ive got bitter feelings towards Trump. Im not happy with the way he has dealt with his power and neglected the American people."

He is sowing division, she said, at a time when the country is looking for comfort and solidarity.

"He's supposed to be uniting everybody, not dividing everybody. He is supposed to be taking care of us," she said. "I think Trump should be more focused on the White House, the American people and leave Twitter alone."

But the election still all comes down to Trump.

For the most part, the interviews with these women revealed that many see the contest as a referendum on his administration and his leadership, with most saying their decision is fueled by, as Donna said, "a push against Donald Trump," rather than a pull towards Biden.

"If Biden is the only Democrat, I will vote for Biden," Lynda said. "I wish I had another option but I don't at the moment."

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden poses for a picture with Pastor of the Bethel AME Church, Rev. Dr. Silvester S. Beaman and attendees during a visit to the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, June 1, 2020.

"There's nothing in particular about Biden," said Sarah Schrock, a self-identified independent that is currently registered as a Democrat to vote this year, from Lucas County, Ohio. "Hes the lesser of two evils."

"Id rather vote against Trump than sit out," she added.

One voter from Pima County, Ariz., Ruby, who refused to give her last name, casted her choice to pick Biden as binary, saying there is "only one reason" before adding, "Im voting against Trump." She does not identify with either party.

Rorie Baker, 70, from Orange County, Calif., which was a GOP stronghold in blue California until 2018, is casting her ballot for Biden since "hes the absolute opposite of Trump. Trump is an unbelievably incompetent man. He has no couth, no class."

But regardless of the outcome of the election, some of the women are deeply frustrated by the stark partisanship and discord rippling through the country.

"I'm more of a moderate," Sloane, the Trump-backer, said, "and I get left out."

"I just wish we had better choices," she lamented of 2020, before returning to 2016. "I'm frustrated that when the Republicans had 20 people to put out there, you had 20 people and no choice."

ABC News' Will Steakin contributed reporting.

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