FLIPPING SEATS “Republicans should be thanking their lucky stars for the women that are running this cycle.” Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty It’s still unclear whether Donald Trump will pull off the kind of poll-defying, frenzy-inducing victory he did in 2016. But this year’s election results hold another surprise victory—this time, for Republican women. While [...]
House ranks, but Senate outlook uncertain Just 13 members of the House and nine senators are Republican women Republican Beth Van Duyne, here campaigning in Irving, Texas, in February, is in a hotly contested race for the open 24th District. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo) By Bridget Bowman Posted September 2, 2020 at 5:00am Republican women [...]
GOP House candidate and South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, smiles after being recognized by Vice President Mike Pence during a speech at the The Citadel on Feb. 13, 2020. Meg Kinnard/AP By Susan Davis June 17, 20205:00 AM ET A familiar tale is unfolding in American politics [...]
Becchi will challenge Sherrill instead of Malinowski Republican congressional candidate will switch races and run in NJ-11 By David Wildstein, January 19 2020 12:36 pm Rosemary Becchi will drop her bid for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th district and instead challenge Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in the next-door 11th district, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Becchi will switch [...]
State Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Marion, a candidate for the Republican nomination in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, announced that she raised nearly $1.1 million for her campaign since she announced in May 2019. This amount includes more than $430,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. Iowa donors made up for 78 percent of her fundraising haul and [...]
Rosemary Becchi is exactly who the Republican Party says it’s looking for. Becchi (pronounced “Becky”) is running for one of the House seats Democrats snapped up in the blue wave of 2018 and that Republicans are eager to snatch back in 2020. She is a white-collar professional and a mother of three in a wealthy, white [...]
WASHINGTON – Although Republican women are scarce in the newly convened 116th Congress, they could punch above their weight. Used to being outnumbered, female lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have a history of working collaboratively together. That could help the 13 Republican women in the House adjust to both the loss of their party’s [...]
America’s children are one step closer to being a littler safer after a bill sponsored by Alabama 2nd District U.S. Rep. Martha Roby passed the House on Tuesday. H.R. 6847: the Preventing Child Exploitation Act of 2018, combats crimes such as child pornography and global sex tourism, and contains tools to fight child abuse and strengthens protections for children under the [...]
U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, a two-term Republican from Tucson and former Air Force combat pilot, on Friday officially entered an already volatile race for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat, setting the GOP field for the drive to the Aug. 28 primary. In a video posted to YouTube Friday morning, McSally plays up her Air Force background, including being the [...]
Republican Karen Handel has won Georgia’s special election, holding off the most well-funded House candidate in history and deflating Democrats who yearned for a special election rebuke to President Donald Trump. Handel, who previously served as Georgia’s secretary of state, had 52 percent of the vote to Democrat Jon Ossoff’s 48 percent when the Associated Press [...]