Divorced Men Are Voting For Donald Trump

A significant majority of divorced men in America support Donald Trump, research shows.

Some 56 percent of men who are divorced, out of 5,570 voters questioned, said they are going to vote for Trump, according to The Survey Center on American Life's findings.

Comparatively, 42 percent of divorced women say the same—this is the largest voting divide gap between men and women of any group in the survey.

For example, 50 percent of married men support Trump, with 45 percent of married women following suit.

Director of The Survey Center on American Life, Daniel A. Cox, said in a report on these findings last Thursday that he was paying particular attention to the divorce divide, adding that it "appears to have been around for a while" but has grown in the last decade.

Citing Gallop polls, Cox said: "The political divide between divorced men and women is larger today than it has been at any time over the last 20 years.

"Part of what I think is happening is that as Americans spend more time uncoupled, they are more likely to develop a tribal approach to politics, a tendency to see the political interests of men and women as fundamentally at odds.

"The rising sense of anxiety felt by men and women about their place and future in America makes it more difficult to appreciate the problems of others."

Cox went on to call for more "opportunities for men and women to see each other, understand each other, become invested in their troubles, and celebrate their triumphs."

Newsweek has contacted Daniel A. Cox for further comment.

Trump is one of two U.S. presidents who has been divorced himself. He divorced his first wife Ivana Trump in 1992 and his second wife Marla Maples in 1999. He is currently married to his third wife Melania Trump.

Ronald Reagan, who served as the country's leader between 1981 and 1989, is the only other U.S. President who has been divorced. He split from his wife Jane Wyman in 1949 before marrying his second wife Nancy Davis in 1952.

In Trump's book The Art of the Comeback, he wrote: "It's very sad when a marriage doesn't work, but it can also be a learning experience."

In 2022, a total of 673,989 divorces and annulments took place across the 45 states that report these statistics, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. That makes a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population.