Trump Fans Tweet #RepealThe19th After Nate Silver Posts Map Showing Result If Only Men Could Vote

The Los Angeles Times reports:

As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee’s supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th. That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

The Twitter commentary began after Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight published an article Tuesday looking at men’s and women’s voting patterns. He found that if the election only counted the male vote, Trump would swamp Clinton, 350 electoral votes to 188. A candidate must win 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

The hashtag was trending for much of yesterday afternoon.

What a day for some genius to launch the hashtag #repealthe19th

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 13, 2016

Instead of #repealthe19th can we #repealthe22? Because I would love 4 more years of Obama.

— John A Mazza (@JAMazza123) October 13, 2016