Yes it does. I'm voting for Nikki in the primary. But, if Trump is the nominee I will vote for him over any democrat.
I like the way Nikki beats Biden by more than Trump does. She should win back the soccer moms and security moms, huh?
Not unless she embraces women's reproductive rights. Republicans cannot win as long as they oppose women's reproductive health care rights. Because American women don't trust Republicans on this issue and with good reason.
There are 8 million more women voters than men. We cannot allow Republicans to treat women as moral idiots who can't make a well-reasoned decision. Too many are dying.
Then there are the other "women's issues" Republicans are either refusing to address, or are botching completely. Mandated maternity leave and job security for pregnant women. Lack of affordable child care for working women.
I put the term "women's issues" in quotes because that's what Republicans call them, before patting women on the head and sending to make coffee. These are basic family economic issues, in a nation where working families need two incomes to provide basic family necessities, like a roof over their heads or food on the table, without government assistance.
Republicans need more women holding legislative office so that they will STOP passing laws that are actively harming women. I watched 5 articulate women in a mid-west state House stand and give impassioned speeches about the necessity of keeping women's reproductive health care available to all women, including some personal experiences with life threatening pregnancy complications whose care would be banned in the proposed law. I wept listening to these women, begging the fellow legislators not to pass this law.
And then one of the men got up and said "If a woman doesn't want to have a baby, she should think about that before she spreads her legs".
For generations, Republicans said they didn't want to ban abortion, they just wanted to turn the matter back to the states. The moment Roe was overturned, every Republican leader in the USA said "Don't stop now. We need a national ban".
Unless and until Republicans start listening to the women, they won't get elected anywhere, because the soccer moms neither trust nor believe Republicans.
