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Lynn Morley Martin became the first Republican woman elected to a House leadership position as vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 1985. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected in both chambers of Congress; she first entered the House of Representatives in 1940, before her election into the Senate in 1948. [7]
There are 92 Democratic women serving in the House, versus 33 Republican women. Meanwhile, Democrats have 55 Black voting members in the House, versus 4 GOP members, and Democrats have 37 Hispanic ...
Matthews anticipates Republican women won’t be as “demoralized” when assessing the result of the election, suggesting they are more averse to “identity politics” compared to Democrats.
As they have for several decades now, Democrats are nominating many more women than Republicans are in their party's primaries. While Republican groups in recent cycles have made efforts to catch ...
Governor John C. Frémont (1813-1890), Republican Presidential Candidate in 1856; Representative Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865), Republican Representative from Maryland; Secretary William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), Democratic Presidential Candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908. President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), Democratic president from 1913 ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
Republican women can vote for Kamala Harris — and they don’t need to tell anyone about it. That was the most striking takeaway from Liz Cheney’s blue wall swing-state tour with the vice ...
Democrats and Republicans have diverged on the seriousness of the threat posed by climate change, with Democrats' assessment rising significantly in the mid-2010s. [ 32 ] The sharp divide over the existence of and responsibility for global warming and climate change falls largely along political lines. [ 33 ]