With so many women running for president, why is focus still on the men?
WHY WE WROTE THIS
Much has been made of the surge of women candidates. But media coverage – and entrenched assumptions about what makes a strong candidate – may not have caught up with the dramatic shift.
By many measurements, women have a better chance than ever before of reaching the White House. Voter resistance to female candidates (based on responses to the question “are men better suited emotionally for politics than most women?”) has dropped to a record low of 13 percent. That’s about a 25% improvement since 2016, when Hillary Clinton got nearly 3 million more votes than Donald Trump…
Yet when it comes to the main indicators of how much traction candidates are getting – media coverage, fundraising, and polling – the women are conspicuously lagging, with none doing well in all three categories…
Senator Warren and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are doing about equally badly in all three categories, but Senator Harris and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota are getting substantially less media coverage than their fundraising and polling numbers would suggest.
Senator Harris is running third in the latest Morning Consult poll and has raised more money than any Democratic contender except Senator Sanders. However, she’s been mentioned only about half as many times as Mayor Buttigieg on major cable news channels recently – though that was during a time period leading up to the formal announcement of his candidacy. Similarly, Senator Klobuchar came in sixth in fundraising for the first quarter but ranks 10th in recent media mentions.
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Amy Klobuchar
On impeachment—
..in her CNN town hall Monday night[,] she essentially declined to answer questions about whether the Mueller report offered grounds to impeach President Donald Trump...She said Trump should be held accountable and called some of his behavior detailed in the report "appalling," but wasn't exactly clear about what the consequences should be -- beyond congressional hearings and bringing Mueller before the Senate to testify.
Klobuchar noted that impeachment originates in the House, and that the Senate's role is that of a jury. In measured tones, she noted that she is waiting to see all the evidence as a former prosecutor, and said Americans could see justice through the varied investigations that continue into Trump's conduct. Closing the loop, she said the third way to hold Trump accountable "is by defeating him in the 2020 election -- and I believe I can do that."
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One of Klobuchar's best moments came when she was asked how she would include rural communities in the climate change debate. This was not your usual climate change question, yet the senator was ready for it. "What do we see in front of us? This is what we see: floods all over Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri," she said. Klobuchar went on to talk about wildfires in Colorado, California and Arizona. www.cnn.com/...
In her own words on her website—
I’m running because we’re tired of divisive politics. We’re fed up with the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding. Today, we say enough is enough. amyklobuchar.com
Amy’s Plan to Build America’s Infrastructure
As President, Amy will focus on seven areas of infrastructure investment. Her plan will:
- Repair and replace our roads, highways, and bridges.
- Provide protection against flooding and update and modernize our airports, seaports and inland waterways.
- Expand reliable public transit options and update rail infrastructure.
- Rebuild our schools and overhaul our country’s housing policy
- Connect every household to the internet by 2022
- Build Climate Smart and Green infrastructure.
- Ensure Clean Water. medium.com/...
Elizabeth Warren
Warren on Impeachment—
"He serves the whole thing up to the United States Congress and says in effect, if there's going to be any accountability, that accountability has to come from the Congress," Warren said. "And the tool that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. This is not about politics; this is about principle."
On Friday, Warren called on the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump. Warren, like several other Democrats, previously had been saying she would need to see Mueller's full report before deciding whether Congress should consider impeachment...
Warren
posted on Twitter on Friday, "To ignore a President's repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways."
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In her own Words—
- END WASHINGTON CORRUPTION
- REBUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS
- That means putting power back in the hands of workers and unions. It also means transforming large American companies by letting their workers elect at least 40% of the company’s board members to give them a powerful voice in decisions about wages and outsourcing. And it means a new era of strong antitrust enforcement so giant corporations can’t stifle competition, depress wages, and drive up the cost of everything from beef to Internet access.
- STRENGTHEN OUR DEMOCRACY
- EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
- It’s not equal justice when a kid with an ounce of pot can get thrown in jail while a bank executive who launders money for a drug cartel can get a bonus. It’s not equal justice when, for the exact same crimes, African Americans are more likely than whites to be arrested, more likely to be charged, more likely to be convicted, and more likely to be sentenced. elizabethwarren.com/...