BY JulieGrace Brufke – 05/25/19 08:58 PM EDT House Republicans are accelerating efforts to recruit more female candidates as the party looks to claw back some of the suburban districts they lost to Democrats during the midterm election cycle. The recruitment push comes after Democrats elected a record 35 women to the House last year, many in…
NYT: ‘Bigger Than a Party of Old White Men’: G.O.P. Women Seek to Replenish House Ranks
May 17 | News
By Carl Hulse New York Times, May 16, 2019 WASHINGTON — While House Democratic women celebrated one of their best elections ever last November, Republican women lamented one of their worst. A solitary new female Republican representative was triumphant compared with 35 freshman Democrats, many of whom arrived with a considerable splash. Female Republican membership in…
CNN: Carol Miller, the only new GOP woman elected to the House, wants to help more Republican women get to Congress
May 13 | News
(CNN) For freshman Republican Rep. Carol Miller, work-life balance looks a bit different. While she was running for her House seat last fall, there were times when Miller had to rush back to the bison farm she owns in West Virginia to deal with unexpected problems with the animals she helps raise. Miller has a…
PBS: House GOP looks to women, minorities as 2020 challengers
May 13 | News
By Alan Fram, Associated Press Politics May 13, 2019 8:01 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans are hunting district-by-district for just the right candidates — women and minorities in many cases — to help them recapture the House six months after a political tidal wave swept Democrats into control of the most diverse majority in…
AP: House GOP focusing on women, minorities for 2020 challengers
May 13 | News
By Alan Fram, May 13th 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans are hunting district-by-district for just the right candidates — women and minorities in many cases — to help them recapture the House six months after a political tidal wave swept Democrats into control of the most diverse majority in history. Among the recruits are…
TIME: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Has a Plan to Get More Republican Women Elected
May 9 | News
BY, ALANA ABRAMSON 5:58 AM EDT MAY 9th 2019 Representative Elise Stefanik can pinpoint the moment that crystallized the issue for her: It was the week after the midterm elections, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives lined up for a photo. Representing the Democratic side of the aisle were more than 30…
Roll Call: More GOP women want to run for the House. But why now?
May 8 | News
Female Republicans are stepping up to run earlier than last cycle Posted May 8, 2019 5:05 AM, By Simone Pathé Stephanie Bice is a Republican from a deeply conservative state that’s only sent three women to Congress. But the election of a record-breaking number of female freshmen to the House in 2018, all but one of them…
Roll Call: Republican woman makes North Carolina runoff in race for Walter Jones’ seat
May 1 | News
Democratic nominee Allen Thomas will have general election campaign to himself for two months By Simone Pathé Posted Apr 30, 2019 10:08 PM The first special election primary of the year is heading into overtime, with two of the 17 Republicans in North Carolina’s 3rd District advancing to a July 9 runoff for a seat that’s likely…
