If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump swapped genders, would they become less or more likeable? — Quartz

A restaging of the presidential debates upended expectations.

In this experiment, Donald Trump became a female candidate named Brenda King and Hillary Clinton became a male candidate named Jonathan Gordan. The actors who played King and Gordon not only replicated what the real-life candidates said during the debates, but also mimicked their posture, gestures, tone, and facial expressions.

when the performance was staged in the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in January, the audience reacted in unexpected ways.

Source: If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump swapped genders, would they become less or more likeable? — Quartz