House GOP, with few female incumbents following midterms, finds recruiting candidates no simple matter By Kristina Peterson March 13, 2019 10:13 a.m. ET COLUMBIA, S.C.—After an election that left the House with nearly seven times as many Democratic women as GOP women, Republicans on and off Capitol Hill vowed to even out those numbers. But boosting GOP…

by David M. Drucker | March 12, 2019 Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is pushing fellow Republicans to admit they have a problem and thoroughly re-evaluate their approach to women voters, warning colleagues in Washington that a rocky relationship with this critical bloc is hobbling the party and could prove costly in 2020. The 34-year-old, third-term Republican from…

By LAUREN HOLTER, Bustle While a record number of Democratic women were elected to the U.S. House in the midterm election, the GOP’s gender gap actually worsened. The Republican congresswoman from New York who was previously the youngest woman ever elected to Congress has vowed to help more Republican women make it to Capitol Hill —…

By Mattie Kahn February 20, 2019 Republicans elected one new woman to the House of Representatives in 2018. Rep. Elise Stefanik knows she has to help the GOP improve on that dismal number in 2020. Elise Stefanik entered the House of Representatives in 2015. At the time, the Republican from New York was just 30 and the youngest woman…

By Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is deeply worried about her party. “We are facing a crisis level of Republican women in Congress,” Stefanik said on Thursday, noting that there are only 13 Republican women in the U.S. House, down from 23 last session. Stefanik stepped down as House Republicans’ recruitment…

By Simone Pathé, Roll Call Republicans have trouble electing women. And for at least one afternoon in Washington, everyone recognized that problem. House GOP leadership, consultants, members and former candidates all showed up Thursday to a five-hour confab just off Capitol Hill to help New York Rep. Elise Stefanik launch her rebranded leadership PAC, which will be…

By Dan Freedman, Times Union WASHINGTON | Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, took center stage Thursday as arguably her party’s leading hope to recruit women Republican candidates and win back some suburban women voters who abandoned the GOP in droves in last year’s midterms. “It’s a problem,” she said at the rollout of her rebranded leadership PAC —…

By: Pete Demola, Sun Community News WASHINGTON, D.C. | House Democrats welcomed the most diverse freshman class in history last week, including the first Native American and Muslim American women. But Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Schuylerville) watched the pomp and circumstance from the sidelines. While she recruited more than 100 women candidates to run in the…

By: Dan Freedman, Times Union WASHINGTON — No longer the new kid in town, Rep. Elise Stefanik is calling on Republican leaders to conduct serious soul-searching after the party’s loss of the House to Democrats, and warning that the dearth of women in the GOP conference has reached a “crisis level.” The Schuylerville lawmaker won…

By Elise Viebeck and Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post Republicans lost the House in November as droves of female voters spurned the party, a reflection of the gaping gender gap. The election devastated the GOP’s already meager group of congresswomen. Almost none of the political survivors will hold positions of power in Congress next year….