Saturday, August 18, 2018

Republicans Push Gender Hierarchy To Gain Advantage

"Republicans have made attacks on high-profile Democratic women a key part of their strategy for holding onto congressional majorities. The GOP aims to cast rank-and-file Democrats as puppets of House Minority Leader Nancy Peloisi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic boogeymen, calculating that suburban and rural voters won’t want to replace their Republican lawmakers with Democrats beholden to the party’s power brokers."

Such are the statements in an article by Melanie Zanona, who also says that those tactics fire up the Trump base.

But, if if Democrats win the House in November, thirty-five women are poised to lead committees and subcommittees in the next Congress

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/402397-boogeywomen-gop-vilifies-big-name-female-dems