For female Republicans, party loyalty trumps #MeToo GOP women in Congress overwhelmingly side with

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On Capitol Hill, female lawmakers, including GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, are still very much divided along party lines about whom they trust most, Brett Kavanaugh or Christine Blasey Ford. | Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images


For female Republicans, party loyalty trumps #MeToo

GOP women in Congress overwhelmingly side with Brett Kavanaugh.

By RACHAEL BADE

09/28/2018 09:18 PM EDT


Sen. Joni Ernst was rushing through a nearly vacant Senate walkway Thursday morning as Christine Blasey Ford was recounting in gripping detail the assault she said she suffered at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh three decades ago.

Asked if she was planning to watch Ford’s testimony, Ernst said no. “I trust Senator Grassley,” she said, referring to her fellow Republican senator from Iowa, who was presiding over the Judiciary Committee hearing.

But a few hours later, Ernst showed up in the hearing room to watch Grassley and his all-male Republican panel hear Kavanaugh describe the “ordeal” he’d been through in recent weeks.

“I have been a supporter of the MeToo movement,” Ernst told Iowa reporters on a conference call that day. “But these are very difficult situations that happen…. And sometimes they can’t be corroborated.”

It turns out that party loyalty still trumps the #metoo movement, at least for most women in Congress.


Over the past year, women across the nation and regardless of ideology have united over their stories experiencing assault, harassment and rape. But on Capitol Hill, female lawmakers are still very much divided along party lines about whom they trust most, the accuser or the accused.

In Kavanaugh’s case, female Democratic lawmakers are siding with the women, including Ford, outraged by Senate Republicans' attempt to jam Kavanuagh’s confirmation through the upper chamber without an investigation of accusations against him. But Republican women on both sides of Capitol are largely backing the party’s decision, sticking by their nominee.

“I believe Judge Kavanaugh when he says these humiliating events never happened,” recently appointed Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) said in her first floor speech on Wednesday. She later tweeted that it was “my duty… as the first woman to represent” Mississippi to defend Kavanaugh.

Democratic women, by contrast, couldn't emphasize enough that their sympathies were with Ford. When it was Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-Calif.) turn to speak during the Judiciary Committee hearing, she declared to Ford, “I want to tell you, I believe you.” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) similarly said Ford “gave forthright and truthful testimony and I believe her and I believe millions of Americans believed her.”..................................................

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1. Republican female politicians. But, what about republican female voters??

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2. Republican Get in Line - Always - It's a Requirement for Membership in the Club

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3. Joni: "I have no doubt that at some point she experienced some sort of traumatic event." Vile

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..............They want evidence, as Ernst told one newspaper.

“What we are looking for is the information that is coming forward and then has it been corroborated,” Ernst said, according to the Omaha World-Herald, which also reported that Ernst watched part of Ford's testimony later. “I have no doubt that at some point she experienced some sort of traumatic event."

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4. Never forget that Trump won the white female demographic

For just over 52% of women, apparently it was more important in 2016 to identify as white than as a woman. I wonder how many of that 52% wish they had it to do over?

Source: WaPo