The week began with a conservative legislator hurling a vulgar and sexist insult at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Congress Ready To Fight As Unemployment Cliff Looms | Wave of evictions could be coming for the nation’s tenants | House approves 9.5B Ocasio-Cortez spending package, Tlaib proposes amendment to fund administration of ‘opportunity zone’ program Ilhan Omar is one and ready? Why could I lose the August primaries MORE? (DN.Y.) on the steps of the Capitol, causing days of negative headlines.
Then a handful of Republicans in the House of Representatives ambushed the representative. Liz Cheney
Elizabeth (Liz) Lynn Cheney The Hill Campaign Report: Campaigns gearing up for the final stretch on Election Day The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – 0 expired unemployment benefit Sinking Trump seeks to crush republican dissent MORE (R-Wyo.), One of the few women in the Republican conference, and the only female member of leadership, for breaking with President Trump
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And later, the president appealed on Twitter for the support of “America’s suburban housewives,” an archaic designation that caused immediate contempt.
The series of events put Republicans on the defensive and left Democrats hoping to use them to convince a crucial electorate, female voters, that they are not isolated incidents, but rather evidence that Republicans are not in contact with women of all trends.
“These are proof points about, I think, the lack of respect for women and the lack of understanding of the particular challenges of women, whether in the workforce, at home or in health care,” said Rep. David Cicilline
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“I suspect it will be an important issue in the campaign.”
Republican Party leaders and operatives have been quick to reject, rejecting the idea that Republicans are fighting to attract women and minorities heading to the November elections.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Kevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy says Ocasio-Cortez should accept Yoho Trump’s apology blames Democrats after Republican Party rejects payroll tax cut The Hill’s 12:30 report (R-Calif.) He noted that Republicans this year have a record number of women running for elected office across the country.
“So if you want to measure it based on that, I think we are improving,” he told reporters on Thursday.
McCarthy pointed to Rep. Mike Garcia (Republican of California), the son of Mexican immigrants who had recently sworn in after winning a special election in May, as an example of the party’s drive for diversity.
“She is not a woman, but she is a first generation American,” McCarthy said.
“Do we have areas for improvement? Yes,” he added. “But are there improvements out there? I see it every day.”
Monday may have been an exception.
During a vote that day, Rep. Ted Yoho
Theodore (Ted) Scott YohoMcCarthy says Ocasio-Cortez should accept Yoho Pelosi’s apology that she relates to Ocasio-Cortez’s attack: “There is no limit to women’s disrespect”. PLUS (R-Fla.) He approached Ocasio-Cortez on the eastern steps of the Capitol and broke from his position that poverty and unemployment are driving a recent surge in crime in New York. Yoho said it was “gross” and “out of [her] crazy mind “for thinking so. As he walked away, he uttered a final verdict to himself:” Damn bitch. “
On Thursday, after Ocasio-Cortez rejected a lukewarm apology from Yoho, Democratic women gathered behind her on the floor of the House for an hour of speeches detailing their own horror stories of abuse, and denouncing “culture “the sexism that they maintain is feeding it. .
“It happens every day in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
The confluence of gender and party has been particularly pronounced under Trump, who has a long history of criticizing anyone, including women, who he perceives as adversaries.
This week’s Democrats tried to quickly link Yoho’s behavior to that of the President.
“I think it is a statement for those who are initially unsure about their misogynistic policies and behavior,” said the representative. Barbara Lee
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“What she said is what we all know: [we have] a president of the United States who empowers people to speak that way, who are comfortable with that kind of disrespect, condescension, and so on, “Pelosi said Friday.
Rep. Veronica Escobar
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“All this has been very unfortunate, it is unpleasant, unseemly. I am glad that the country is now seeing it,” he said. “Because to me it represents what they think of women in the United States. And I think women in the United States should vote accordingly.”
“What women are witnessing and hearing is a motivator in itself.”
Republicans say they are welcoming the debate.
Ocasio-Cortez is among the most liberal lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and Republican agents have been trying to link vulnerable centrist Democrats to their far-left positions since virtually the day they arrived on Capitol Hill.
“We welcome Democrats who use Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their radical ideas such as underfinancing the police and raising taxes to pay for the Socialist Green New Deal as key campaign themes,” Michael McAdams, spokesman for the Committee, said on Friday. Republican National Congress. email.
The Cheney saga came Tuesday during a closed-door meeting of Republicans on Capitol Hill, where a handful of Trump’s closest allies clashed with Republican leader No. 4 for being insufficiently loyal to the President. A point of contention was Cheney’s vocal support for Anthony Fauci
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Trump himself confronted Cheney two days later, saying the Wyoming Republican hawkish “is only upset” because she is working to get the United States out of “the ridiculous and costly endless wars” started by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Republican leaders quickly downplayed those attacks, saying they were based directly on policy differences, not gender.
“People in our party are allowed to have different opinions,” McCarthy said.
Still, the Republican Party conference is remarkably male-dominated: There are only 13 Republican women in the House, compared to 88 Democratic women, and two of those Republican lawmakers will retire at the end of the year. Democrats and some Cheney supporters did not overlook the view of Trump and his male allies who attacked the only woman on the Republican leadership team.
In another gender-based controversy, Trump on Thursday sent a message to “America’s suburban housewives,” warning that Joe Biden
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Democrats not only denounced the “housewives” reference as disparaging, some also saw a racial subtext in the “suburbs” message.
Rep. Karen bass
Karen Ruth Bass Ocasio-Cortez Rejects Yoho’s Apologies As False House Votes To Remove Confederate Statues Of Democratic Capitol Hill Congressmen: Yoho’s Apology To Ocasio-Cortez MORE “Not Enough” MORE (D-Calif.), Who heads the CBC, said Trump is “getting desperate” as his poll numbers drop and the coronavirus spreads.
“And when he’s desperate, what does he do? He goes to the race, he goes to the division,” Bass said. “And for me, in your communication, when you talk about the suburbs, it’s a whistle.”
For his part, Cicilline characterized the recent controversies as “individual escalations” and argued that they fit a broader theme of patriarchy among right-wing politicians, one he said will only help Democrats in November.
“They have consistently resisted public policies that have benefited women and families,” she said. “That has been consistent.”
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