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POLITICO illustration/AP photo | Happy Friday, rulers! I got a puppy, and I've been listening to a lot of Ethel Cain lately. Have music recommendations? Movie recommendations? Feedback on the newsletter? Hit me up at kfossett@politico.com. Thanks to Maya Parthasarathy for your help putting this newsletter together — it couldn't happen without you! This week, Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney lost her primary to a Donald Trump-backed opponent, Harriet Hageman. As one of two Republicans on the January 6 committee investigating the insurrection in the Capitol and a proud critic of Trump, Cheney knew the risks of taking a stand against the former president. She stood her ground, though, and when she lost on Tuesday, she quickly announced the launch of an organization to "mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president," according to Jeremy Adler, her spokesperson. It takes guts for an elected Republican to take on Trump right now, and many have already called Cheney courageous for doing so. Some have also noted that in an era when the Republican Party is increasingly interested in what it calls "masculine virtues" — which Senator Josh Hawley defines as qualities such as "courage, and independence and assertiveness" — Cheney, a woman, seems to embody them the most. She's not the only woman who has made a name for herself as a Trump critic in the GOP. There's Senator Lisa Murkowski, who perhaps would be facing the same fate as Cheney were it not for Alaska's ranked-choice system. Representative Jaime Herrera-Beutler (R-Wash.), too, lost her primary this week, after voting to impeach Trump. These visible losses and challenges for women GOP candidates has made me wonder if gender is at play in who takes visible stands against Trump. Here are the basics of how the gender split played in the 2021 impeachment: Two out of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump were women ; that's 28 percent, compared to 16 percent of their overall share of Republican Senate seats. Two out of the 10 who voted to impeach him in the House were women –that 20 percent is slightly more than their 14-percent share of Republican House seats overall. I called Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics, who cautioned against mistaking a few high-profile individual cases for a broader trend. "There are a lot more Republican women in the House who are not distancing themselves from Donald Trump," she said. Cheney herself seems to be leaning into the idea that gender might play a role in standing up to Trump. "It is especially young women who seem instinctively to understand the peril of this moment for our democracy, and young women who know it will be up to them to save it," Cheney said in a June speech at the Reagan Presidential Library. "And I have been incredibly moved by young women who have come forward to testify in the January 6 Committee." That's a change for Cheney, said Walsh. Walsh pointed to a photo spread in the New York Times of all the women who had been elected to Congress in 2018. Cheney was the only woman who was not available to be photographed, Walsh noted. "What's interesting to me about Liz Cheney is that she's leaning into gender more herself than we have seen her do in the past," Walsh said. Beyond current elected officials, Walsh said that women are certainly finding themselves in a complicated place in the party. "There are quite a few moderate Republican women who have walked away from the party, as a result [of Trump], but they're not the ones who are serving in office," said Walsh. "And then certainly among the voters, there are those moderate Republican women — like suburban Philadelphia women — who may have played a role in Trump's defeat in the state in 2020. "But if you look at some of the women Republican candidates who were running, both two years ago and then this cycle, they're not running away from Trump," Walsh said. Cheney's primary opponent, Harriet Hageman, has not always been a Trump supporter but has recently called him "the greatest president of my lifetime" after his endorsement. In that sense, Walsh said, it might be the case that these moderate women, such as Cheney and Murkowski, are holdovers from a tradition of moderate Republican women in the House and Senate. Now, though, the Trump effect is erasing that tradition. "They're losing their place in the party," Walsh said.
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AP Photo/Jae C. Hong | "In defeat, Cheney chides Trump and invokes history," by Myah Ward and Olivia Beavers for POLITICO: "Liz Cheney closed one chapter of her public life and opened another with a history-heavy speech Tuesday night that made clear that she's at peace with losing her congressional seat — and ready to continue her fight against Donald Trump. "'This primary election is over,' Cheney told a crowd of supporters at a picturesque ranch outside Jackson, Wyo., saying she'd called her Trump-backed opponent, Harriet Hageman, to concede the race. 'But now the real work begins.' "Cheney made no apologies for the decisions that led to her election loss. And she contrasted her quick concession to Trump's prolonged refusal to acknowledge his own electoral loss, a refusal that led to the violence of Jan. 6, 2021 and the rise of election deniers within the Republican Party."
| | | | Sponsored by Business Leader members of Women Rule: The Exchange:   In the Round: A conversation with today's leaders. | | | "Cheney to launch anti-Trump organization after primary defeat," by Ryan Lizza and Eugene Daniels for POLITICO … " 2024 preview? Cheney telegraphs her next, direct shot at Trump," by Olivia Beavers for POLITICO "Florida court says teen isn't mature enough to get an abortion ," by Arek Sarkissian for POLITICO: "A Florida court of appeal this week upheld a decision stating a 16-year-old teen could not get an abortion because she lacked the maturity to make such a decision, even after the parentless teen said she was not ready to have a child and is still in school. "An opinion released Monday by the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal upheld an earlier decision by a state court judge. That judge was not convinced the teen had demonstrated the maturity to choose to get an abortion. The teen, identified only as Jane Doe 22-B, has no parents but is in the care of Florida's child welfare agency and has a guardian. She is about 10 weeks pregnant and currently resides with a relative. "'The minor states that she is sufficiently mature to make the decision, saying she "is not ready to have a baby," she doesn't have a job, she is "still in school,"' the Monday order states. 'And the father is unable to assist her.' "Florida abortion law requires parents to consent before a minor can have an abortion. But underage teens can also circumvent the consent requirement by asking for a waiver from a state circuit court judge. According to the appeal court's decision, the teen's guardian supports the teen's wish to get an abortion." "Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2020 signed into law a measure that made parental consent for an abortion a requirement for minors. The new law was a win for Republicans who long sought to topple precedent set by the state Supreme Court in 1989 when it rejected a similar parental notification law that was declared a violation of privacy. Voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2004 that led the Legislature to create a parental notification requirement, but it provides for exceptions and the ability for minors to ask the court for waivers." "Groups to sue Florida Medicaid program over ban on gender affirming care," by Arek Sarkissian for POLITICO … " Latino PAC drops $500,000 in last-minute ad buy to boost New York congressional candidate," by Marissa Martinez for POLITICO
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AP Photo/Jeff Roberson | "Nebraska woman charged with helping daughter have abortion," via the Associated Press: "A Nebraska woman has been charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators uncovered Facebook messages in which the two discussed using medication to induce an abortion and plans to burn the fetus afterward. "The prosecutor handling the case said it's the first time he has charged anyone for illegally performing an abortion after 20 weeks, a restriction that was passed in 2010. Before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, states weren't allowed to enforce abortion bans until the point at which a fetus is considered viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks. "In one of the Facebook messages, Jessica Burgess, 41, tells her then 17-year-old daughter that she has obtained abortion pills for her and gives her instructions on how to take them to end the pregnancy. "The daughter, meanwhile, 'talks about how she can't wait to get the "thing" out of her body,' a detective wrote in court documents. 'I will finally be able to wear jeans,' she says in one of the messages. Law enforcement authorities obtained the messages with a search warrant, and detailed some of them in court documents. "In early June, the mother and daughter were only charged with a single felony for removing, concealing or abandoning a body, and two misdemeanors: concealing the death of another person and false reporting. It wasn't until about a month later, after investigators reviewed the private Facebook messages, that they added the felony abortion-related charges against the mother. The daughter, who is now 18, is being charged as an adult at prosecutors' request."
| | | | Sponsored by Business Leader members of Women Rule: The Exchange: As inflation rates soar and disruptions to the global supply chain persist, all eyes are on the nation's economic recovery. But getting back on track in an inclusive and sustainable way is no easy feat. Today, women are still finding themselves disproportionately affected by pervasive inequities when it comes to leadership, wages, and skills-building. Bridging these profound gender 'gaps' will be paramount to the country's ability to achieve sustained growth for the future. But where do we start?
POLITICO Focus sat down with members of Women Rule: The Exchange to answer this very question. Click here to see what leaders had to say about the strategies and solutions that will power an economy that benefits all. | | | "Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words," by Serena Williams for Vogue: "Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don't think it's fair. If I were a guy, I wouldn't be writing this because I'd be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family. Maybe I'd be more of a Tom Brady if I had that opportunity. Don't get me wrong: I love being a woman, and I loved every second of being pregnant with Olympia. I was one of those annoying women who adored being pregnant and was working until the day I had to report to the hospital — although things got super complicated on the other side. And I almost did do the impossible: A lot of people don't realize that I was two months pregnant when I won the Australian Open in 2017. But I'm turning 41 this month, and something's got to give." "The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women," by Anne Helen Petersen for Bloomberg: "There's one significant catch in this WFH utopia. That additional flexibility opens up a space, and that space is quickly filled with responsibilities that were once more equally distributed: between partners in a relationship, but also between citizens and the society of which they are a part. "Take the fairly common scenario of two parents who work in office jobs in or around a city. One kid goes to elementary school full time; the other is still in day care. Before the pandemic, the woman's workplace, like so many workplaces, discouraged remote work aside from emergencies. As a result, the family had a robust network of paid and familial options in place for days when the day care closed or the public school had an early release. One parent did drop-off; the other did pickup; they both worked from about 8 or 9 a.m. to 5 or 6 p.m. each day. "Over the past two years, most of those clear boundaries and carefully designed arrangements have dissolved. The woman's workplace has instituted a hybrid setup, in which all employees are required to be in the office two days a week. As the primary bearer of the mental load, she can start prepping dinner at 4 p.m. while still working remotely, so that when the kids come home, she isn't trying to attend to their needs and scrambling to get food on the table. The norms at her partner's job, however, are for daily or near-daily in-person work. He's still commuting 30 minutes or more to and from the office. He also makes more money, in part because he didn't have to leave the workforce twice for maternity leave."
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