The following article by Emily Crockett was posted on the ShareBlue.com website August 29, 2018:
A record number of women are running for office in this year’s election, but the Republican gender gap is probably about to get even worse.
Record numbers of women are running for Congress in 2018 — but Republicans will still probably have fewer women representing their party in the U.S. House after the midterm elections.
“2018 is the year of the woman — except on the Republican side, where the ranks of GOP women are likely to shrink,” David Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report, told The Hill. “It’s a fairly dire situation for Republican women in the House.”
Out of 236 Republican House members, just 23 are women. And according to The Hill’s analysis, the best-case scenario for the GOP will be keeping that already-low number constant.