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"The women are in my grill no matter where I go," Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) groused in early 2022 as he was indomitable past some of the many grassroots activists spurred to action by the election of President Donald Trump. Since then, the women-led "resistance" has fueled a wave of Democratic candidates and sparked promise that female voters will stop Trump in his tracks.

1992 was declared the "Year of the Woman" subsequently 24 women won House seats for the first time and four new women joined the Senate. In 2018, there has been a surge in women running for Congress. Three-fourths of them are Democrats, and 68 percent are challengers or running for open up seats.

Women running for House, 1992-2018

Women running for Senate, 1992-2018

2018 has been the biggest year for women winning primaries in House, Senate, gubernatorial, and state legislature races.

Women are…

• 20% of current members of Congress
• 24% of this year's major-party candidates for Congress
• 14% of Republican candidates for Congress
• 33% of Democratic candidates

Women may lead 35 congressional committees and subcommittees if Democrats win the Firm.

Women'south campaign donations to congressional candidates have exceeded the previous high fix in 2016. While men's donations are evenly split between parties, women's gifts are breaking toward Democrats in a big way.

Women's contributions to candidates and parties

Women'due south contributions to congressional candidates

In 2018, more than 42,000 women contacted Emily's List about running as pro-choice Democrats. In 2016, that number was 920.

Potential candidates contacting Emily'southward List

25% of all land legislators are women. Of those, 61% are Democrats.lxx% of the more than ii,800 women running for statehouses are Democrats.

Trump can blame women for his historic unpopularity. Equally of mid-October, his blessing rating was less than l pct with almost every subgroup of women.

Trump'southward disapproval ratings

Millennial registered voters who place as…

Women with campaign ads in 2022 in which they breastfed their babies: 2

• 79% of Democrats say at that place are also few women in high political part. 33% of Republicans practice.
  
• 39% of Republican women say they have recently participated in election-related activism.
• 49% of Democratic women say they have.
• Near 70% of the members and leaders of grassroots "resistance" groups like Indivisible are women.
• Women candidates had a 10-indicate advantage over men in open Democratic primaries in 2018.

Nearly half of female Democratic Business firm candidates are challenging incumbents. 97% of Business firm incumbents were reelected in 2016.

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Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/women-candidates-democrats-election-charts/

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