Posted on 04/28/2019 3:12:49 PM PDT by simpson96
IOWA CITY, Iowa Democratic voters say that more than anything, they want to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. But some worry that means putting their hope of electing the first woman president on hold.
"I can hardly think about it. It makes me sick thinking about how nasty this could get for a woman, Marianne Mason said, clutching her stomach as she waited for Sen. Kamala Harris of California to arrive at a town hall event at the University of Iowa on a recent Wednesday night. "How are they supposed to rebut someone like Trump? I want to see a woman in the White House, I really do. But I just dont know if it can happen against him."
Mason, 67, of Iowa City, is not alone in her thinking. In conversations with dozens of Democratic primary voters men and women across several states, voters told NBC News that Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016 made them rethink how willing Americans are to vote for a woman for president, especially when pitted against Trump. For some, the risk of four more years of a Trump presidency is not worth another attempt to break the final glass ceiling for women.
Although many of these voters said they recognize that the "electability" question is often unfairly aimed at women running for office, they stressed the need to be realistic about an electorate they view as sexist and a president who they say is only too eager to launch gender-based attacks.
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Or cat. I'm betting on a cat.
i’m assuming this is one of those hypothetical issues, because no female candidate has risen above single digits in the national polls:
Why not just let demRATs run Stormy Daniels for president. No matter what democrat gets elected, the country’s gonna get screwed.
No one in their right, will-to-live mind would have Hil just one heartbeat away from the presidency.
No democrat can beat Trump. With or without a penis.
How nasty could it get for a woman? See how Herself got skewered by the voters according to the Electoral College map. Sure, Herself racked up some surprising totals in venues where Democrats already held a firm lock on the election outcomes, but that was as much due to fraudulent voting practices and cooked numbers on the reported totals, as it was to what would have been a much more slim margin had honest ballots been the only ones cast. Illegal immigrants were already voting in California and New York City, using fraudulent identification, and even multiple times in certain localities.
It gets nasty for women if the women are nasty creatures in the first place. Just look at what they did to Sarah Palin, most of the harshest criticism came from these supposedly “tolerant” Progressive females.
“worth the risk”?????
Sounds kinda ... sexist.
AGREED. = NONE of the current gallery of DIMocRATS has a chance to defeat DJT, as they are roughly divided into two groups the INCOMPETENTS & the SOCIALISTS.
Some of the DIMs may fall into both groups.
The 2020 election is LOST to the DIMs already.
Yours, TMN78247
... but we loved Bill Clinton. Boys will be boys, doncha know.
He already beat one Democrat woman. Why don’t they try a transgender from their potpourri of exotic identity politics bench? Or, better, still one of their gender fluid freaks that can campaign as a woman on Monday, a man on Tuesday and an aardvark on Wednesday.
It’s so weird to jump between Freerepublic and Twitter.
I keep wanting to retweet posts on Freerepublic.
He sputtered and said, Those arent women!
That was when I fully realized, liberalism is the politics of denial.
Of course they’re not women(to a leftist, they aren’t even human)
You mis-spelled “Mental Disorder”.
Well, she has a point. He has already beaten the smartest and most qualified woman in the universe, so why bother with someone else?
"I can hardly think about it. It makes me sick thinking about how nasty this could get for a woman, Marianne Mason said, clutching her stomach...
Sounds like we need a double standard, one for male candidates, another for female candidates. /sarc
I hope the Dems choose a Dem woman for their primary candidate for Prez. Trump will win in a landslide.
translation: A guy like Trump is not going to let the fact that Harris climbed the political ladder with her vajayjay slide.
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