Posted on 11/06/2020 3:46:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Is 2020 the Year of the Republican Woman? Initial electoral returns appear to confirm this trend.
Talk about an exciting way to cap off 100 years since the 19th Amendments ratification.
As Town Halls Reagan McCarthy noted, At least 12 new GOP women were elected in key house races, with 10 incumbent women winning reelection. With some results still pending, 11 more GOP women could possibly win key house races.
Some are suggesting if outstanding Congressional races yet to be tabulated continue to trend GOP, there could be upwards of 33 Republican women, incumbents and newbies, in the House chamber.
Historic, if it proves true.
What Ignited the Pink Wave
Before the election, only 13 GOP womenan abysmal 2.9 percent representationserved in the House. Democrat women won an unprecedented 126 House seats during the 2018 blue wave.
This clearly didnt sit well with the Republican Party, especially Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). In December 2018, she wrote, We are at a crisis level of GOP women in Congress & I will continue speaking out. We need ALL your voices to help to make an impact.
That prompted her to establish E-PAC, whose mission is to engage, empower, and elevate Republican women running for Congress.
Stefanik wasnt alone. She joined political action committees (PAC)s Value in Electing Women (VIEW), Winning for Women, and RightNOW Women, among others, in helping to usher in Tuesdays victories.
Historic Night for GOP Women
According to Rutgers Universitys Center for American Women in Politics, 25 Republican women served in the 109th Congress (2005-2007). That number will be shattered this year.
227 Republican women filed to run for Congress this cycle. 94 eventually secured their respective party nominations.
The 19th*, a new women-centric publication, noted Election Night proved to be a strong showing for Republican women. The publication even emphasized how these women broke barriers:
They nonetheless broke barriers in a year that may, once all of the races are called, be reminiscent of 2018, when Democratic women fueled their partys House takeover, sending the first Muslim women and Native American women to Congress.
POLITICO noted Republican women in 2020 are having a historic moment of their own.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley campaigned across the country in support of 21 female candidates at the federal, state, and local level. Haley, former Governor of South Carolina and Republican queenmaker, was thrilled with Tuesdays results.
"I could not be more excited or proud to support our GOP women, Haley said. While they might have been outspent, they could not be out worked. I can't wait to see what they do when they bring that same fight and determination to Washington."
Olivia Perez-Cubas, Working for Women Action Fund spokesperson, echoed Haleys sentiment.
"If 2018 was the Year of the Woman, then 2020 is the Year of the Republican Woman, said Perez-Cubas. After the last midterm elections, we knew that we needed to shake things up and do a better job of ensuring Republican women had enough resources and support to go toe-to-toe with their opponents on the Left. Groups like WFW Action Fund did just that, and Republican women across the country are making historical gains as a result."
Empowered and Ready to Be Heard
A snapshot into the incoming class of female GOP House members will leave many excited. Many representatives are younger, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and hail from suburban districts.
Even more intriguing is the handful of new members who experienced socialisms horrors firsthand or grew up with parents who did.
Congresswoman-elect Victoria Spartz (R-IN) will make history as the first Soviet-born Member of Congress. She grew up in Ukraine.
Two daughters of Cuban immigrants, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida and Nicole Malliotakis of New York, can relate to Spartz quite well and similarly educate Americans about the dangers of that system.
Nancy Mace, first female graduate of The Citadel, is the first Republican woman to represent her state in the chamber.
Yvette Harrell, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, beat the Democrat representing New Mexicos 2nd Congressional District.
Conclusion
Outside of the House of Representatives, things are looking good for Republican women in politics.
While Senator McSally (R-AZ) wont return to Washington, Cynthia Lummis will join as the first woman representing Wyoming as U.S. Senator. Utah State Senator Deidre Henderson will be the third Republican woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor. Indiana Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch won a second term. Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung ousted the Rhode Island Democrat Speaker of the House. Donna Veach flipped Connecticuts 30th House District. Christi Jacobsen, incoming Montana Secretary of State, will be the first Republican woman to serve in this role.
And many others are still being accounted for.
Will these women be celebrated in the media or acknowledged by feminists? Highly doubtful. But they dont need their permission to shine or win over supporters.
The era of the Republican woman is just getting started. You go girls!
pink shmink, biden is stealing the election and we will never be the same again!
You can't be hurt.
You'll not "lose your election".
So get out there in front of the microphones and show us we didn't make a mistake !
SO we are supposed to believe that the GOP was winning everywhere but the Presidency? You know, the guy who drew 57,000 at a time at his rallies.
Sorry, but these “battleground states are frauds. Simply look at the margins in surrounding states and how much better Trump did this time than in 2016, be it NY or FL.
Yet we are supposed to believe the red battleground states all went blue.
Bullshit
Hopefully in 2022, well boot the wicked bitch of the west from the Speakers chair.
Not one poll, pundit or prediction foresaw a net flip of 6-11 House seats or the GOP holding on to the Senate. It truly sucks whats happening with the Presidential election (and I hope the lawsuits finally rip the cover off rampant fraud), but however it shakes out, the dems can piss off with their agenda. It isnt happening.
This was a coup.
I can’t believe the New York numbers and I live here :-) 13%? Trump lost by 24% last time.
Increase in Jewish vote and black vote and Latino vote. Republicans did very well with these house elections. So I guess everybody chose Biden and then checked the Republican column the rest of the way down. :-)
Does anyone think that voters in AZ would vote for Trump but not McSally??? FRAUD!!
Florida, Alabama, Tenn., South Carolina all surround Georgia and are states Trump won (some by a wide margin). Yet Georgia is going Biden. Amazing...
The Black Hippo vs the Orange Man. Film at 11.
Not amazing.....FRAUDULENT.
35m50s to 39m06s: Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group. (paraphrasing)
at 37m Laura: if you were told over summer that Trump’s party would gain House seats and hold the Senate, what would you have projected the election result to have been on the presidential level?
Cahaly: I would have told you it means Trump was going to win BIG. and if I said that, I would have been ridiculed, just like I was ridiculed when I said there were shy Trump voters and corruption in Philadelphia.
Bitchute: Ingraham Angle 5 November 2020
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QkGYpEiKu7JE/
Institutionalized election fraud is a cancer, and unless exposed and excised, will kill the country.
Yes I believe it. McSally had no charisma and didnt run a decent campaign. Her ads were horrible and she never even mentioned he is a gun grabber. We all tried to tell the GOP not to run her.
So “pink,” like “red,” means something radically different than it used to when applied to political science!
Yet Georgia is going Biden. Amazing...
Stacy Abrams getting revenge aided by Im sure the Dem party as she cant be smart enough to do this herself
Every one of those women in the house mentioned other than the one in Florida would have had no business losing their republican-leaning districts.
Yep. No other way to see it.
Wow.. what an article. Trying to understand why these ladies are silent about prez Trumps incredible record on trafficking of mostly women and children. In fact, I am trying to figure out why everyone was silent about it.
Dems would have every willing victim telling their story repeatedly, if it were their cause.
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