If Donald Trump is as toxic with women as the political punditry contends, it’s not showing up in campaign finance reports.

A recent analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics indicates that women have accounted for 27.2 percent of Trump’s contributions greater than $200 through the end of June. That is virtually identical to the share of women who contributed to Mitt Romney in 2012 (28.3 percent) and John McCain in 2008 (28 percent).

That’s not to say there is no gender gap — Hillary Clinton is getting more than half of her contributions from women. Recent Democratic candidates have both raised a greater share of their money from women and have outperformed their Republican opponents at the polls among female voters.

“I think that’s silly. I think women have gone crazy … I don’t think he’s against women.”

In addition, polls suggest that Trump — against the first female major-party nominee for president — is doing worse among female voters than Romney did. But if the gender gap were an unusually big liability for Trump, donations would presumably reflect this. They do not.

Women who have written checks to the Republican nominee reject the allegation that he’s anti-woman.

“I think that’s silly,” said Josephine Ablamsky, a Connecticut woman who donated $200 to Trump’s campaign. “I think women have gone crazy … I don’t think he’s against women.”

Certainly, the attacks have been strident. Katie Packer, who chaired the anti-Trump super PAC Our Principles PAC, told The Guardian that “general election women voters think he’s abhorrent.”

Republican strategist Mindy Finn told the British newspaper, “Conservative women don’t really have a presidential candidate. They are a lost electorate.”

[lz_table title=”Female Donors” source=”Center for Responsive Politics”]Republicans
|Average Candidate,Women donors
John McCain,28%
Mitt Romney,28.3%
Donald Trump,27.2%
|Democrats
|Average Candidate,Women donors
Barack Obama (’08),42.2%
Barack Obama (’12),44.1%
Hillary Clinton,53.8%
[/lz_table]

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NeverTrumper Liz Mair predicted a “phenomenal amount of attrition of women voters to Hillary Clinton.”

Ablamsky thinks it’s hogwash.

“He’s pro-American,” she said, adding that she agrees with Trump’s stand against illegal immigration. “I think they should come in lawfully, not unlawfully.”

According to the Center for Responsive Politics report, Trump has gotten $3.1 million from over 7,000 women who contributed at least $200. (Campaign finance law does not require smaller contributions to be itemized). Men gave Trump $8.4 million.

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Florida resident Patricia Abbey, who donated $100 to Trump, said she sometimes wishes Trump would express himself differently and had not picked a fight with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. But she dismissed allegations of misogyny as media spin. And she said she certainly could never support Clinton — who she believes belongs in jail for mishandling classified information.

“I hate political correctness,” she said. “I hate all the illegal immigration. My key is corruption … I’m not taking it [Trump’s controversial comments about women] personally. I want what’s best for the United States.”

Abbey said she has donated to candidates before but rarely feels so strongly about the outcome of an election.

“I think this is the most I’ve ever given to a campaign, because I really want him to win,” she said.