By Michele L Swers January 5, 2021 It’s been a banner year for Republican women in Congress. Incumbent Sens. Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Susan Collins (Maine) won competitive races, making it possible for their party to hold its Senate majority if it wins at least one of the Georgia Senate runoffs. Republican women gained more dramatically in the House,…
WASHINGTON POST: More Republican women than ever before will serve in this Congress. Here’s why.
Jan 5
WASHINGTON POST: GOP women’s record-breaking success reflects party’s major shift on recruiting and supporting female candidates
Dec 7
By Rachel Bade Published December 7, 2020 Republican Beth Van Duyne was skeptical when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) showed up in Dallas and asked her to run for Congress in mid-2019. The former mayor of Irving, Tex., was well-known in the community as a glass-ceiling breaker in the local boys’ club of GOP…
ROLL CALL: Zooms, phone calls and texts: Supporting GOP women behind the scenes
Dec 3
By Bridget Bowman Published December 3, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic sent candidates scrambling in the spring, trying to figure out how to campaign amid a global health crisis. For Republican women, that meant calling Julie Conway. “I was having the same conversation 30 times a day,” Conway, the executive director of VIEW PAC, which supports…
NEWSWEEK: Republican Women, Widely Dismissed in the Trump Era, Crushed Democrats in Key House Races
Nov 23
BY ALEXANDRA HUTZLER November 23, 2020 The Republican Party has chipped away at the Democratic majority in Congress, in large part thanks to female candidates. “[The year] 2020 ended up being the perfect storm for Republican women,” said Julie Conway, executive director of the Value in Electing Women (VIEW) political action committee, which supports conservative women…
