Senate Democrats fielding large roster of women

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Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM 1h1 hour ago
Senate Democrats field large roster of women in the year of Trump
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Democrats will have female Senate candidates on the ballot in nine states in November, a near-record, and these contenders will likely be sharing the ticket with the first major-party female presidential nominee in history in Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump, whose commanding win in Indiana cemented his improbable status as the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, is viewed unfavorably by 70 percent of women, according to Gallup. So as discomfited Republican Senate candidates released statements trying to change the topic or have it both ways Wednesday, Democrats made plans to link their largely male opponents to Trump, aiming to win back control of the Senate in November by electing Democratic women from coast to coast...

Indeed for all of the controversies he's stoked and every voter group he's offended while appealing to enough white Republican men to emerge as the GOP nominee, women could be Trump's biggest problem this fall, and the biggest problem for SenateRepublicans. Women vote in higher numbers than men — in 2012, 10 million more women cast ballots than men — and vote more heavily Democratic. This year, strategists in both parties expect those trends to be magnified given Trump's unpopularity with women, Clinton's historic candidacy (though she herself faces high negative ratings), and the large number of women running for Senate...
EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock said this election presents the chance to send a historic number of women to the Senate, even more than in 1992's "Year of the Woman" when female voters outraged over the all-male Judiciary Committee's treatment of Anita Hill at hearings on Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination swept women into office around the country.

"Donald Trump is going to have to really expand the electorate to overcome how badly he is seen by women voters in this country," Schriock said in an interview. "If you're starting your presidential campaign with 70 percent basically women who don't like you, you're going to have to find a lot of brand-new voters, a lot. And the truth is there's not enough."


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