Published on September 20, 2019 by Emilie Munson WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik wants more women in the House, and she’s unabashed about a key ingredient to do it: money. Her disruptive voice on the issues of GOP fundraising and recruiting is likely to play a sizable role as the party reaches for…

Published August 26, 2019 by Sarah Fitzpatrick, Kristen Welker and Kenzi Abou-Sabe There’s nothing unusual about Patti Russo spending huge chunks of time on the phone. She’s the executive director of a prestigious training program for women planning to run for elected office. But this year, Russo has been fielding an influx of calls the…

Published in the Orange County Breeze on July 24th 2019 U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik announced she has officially endorsed Orange County Supervisor Michelle Steel for California’s 48th congressional district. Representative Stefanik, who served as the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Recruitment Chair last cycle, was first elected to Congress in 2014 and at the time was…

Opinion Published July 26, 2019 by Rebecca Schuller, Executive Director of Winning for Women Last year’s midterm elections saw the number of Republican women in the U.S. House fall from 22 to 13, a 25-year low. Knowing this is a crisis level number, Republicans across the country have launched a broad effort to elect more women…

By Simone Pathé Published on July 9, 2019 Voters in eastern North Carolina are heading to the polls Tuesday for a low-profile special election with a lot at stake.  Regardless of who wins the Republican primary runoff, the 3rd District seat formerly held by the late Rep. Walter B. Jones will almost certainly remain in GOP hands…

By Maggie Astor, July 9, 2019 NEW HAVEN — For Republican women, 2018 was rock bottom. At least, that’s how Julie Conway, a Republican consultant, described it to students attending the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. The tally: They sank from 23 representatives in the House to 13, a drop more than twice as sharp as…

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…

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) 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…

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…