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…
ROLL CALL: Zooms, phone calls and texts: Supporting GOP women behind the scenes
Dec 3
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…
NPR: How A Record Number Of Republican Women Got Elected To Congress
Nov 13
By Danielle Kurtzleben November 13, 2020 Minnesota’s sprawling, rural 7th Congressional District has been represented by conservative Democrat Collin Peterson for 30 years. It was considered one of Democrats’ most vulnerable seats going into this year’s election, and the GOP flipped it when Michelle Fischbach won by 13 points. Rep.-elect Fischbach credited one particular Republican…
NEW YORK POST: Republican women roar with unprecedented wave of victories in the House
Nov 8
By the New York Post Editorial Board November 8, 2020 With several races still unresolved, Republicans are on track to make major gains in the House of Representatives — with women definitely leading the way. Female candidates account for most of the seats that the GOP has wrested from the Democrats so far, and this year…
