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Lara Trump criticizing the Women’s March probably isn’t going to win Trump more women voters

The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2018:

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Lara Trump tells Fox that women who marched are too dumb to know why they’re anti-Trump, “They just think that’s the thing to do” http://mm4a.org/ZPD 

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To some pro-Trump women, it seems like the only independent women are those who support the president.

Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law, appeared on the president’s favorite cable network Tuesday to offer her opinion on the hundreds of thousands of women who participated in marches that took place this past weekend in cities across the country.

“It was more of a hateful, anti-Trump protest, which I think is really sad because this president has done so much for women. . . . Women’s unemployment is at a 17-year low right now. And, yet, these women out there are so anti-Trump. And I don’t even think they know why. They just think that’s the thing to do,” Lara Trump told the “Fox & Friends” hosts.

To say that women who participated in Saturday’s march, some who came to protest sexual assault, women’s health issues and immigration, don’t know why they protested is a potentially risky move for an administration that already has high disapproval ratings with women.

According to the latest Washington Post-ABC poll, 65 percent of women disapprove of Trump’s job performance. And there are reasons.

Demonstrators gathered on Jan. 20, at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to rally for women’s rights, a year after President Trump took office. (Video: Lindsey Sitz, Hannah Jewell, Elyse Samuels/Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

Nearly 7 in 10 — 66 percent — women say Trump has not accomplished enough during his first year in office. And only 15 percent of women say that Trump’s actions have helped them and their family in the past year, while about a third — 34 percent — of women think that the Trump administration deserves a great deal/good amount of credit for the country’s current economic success.

Leaders at the Republican National Committee are aware that the GOP is struggling with women voters, which is why RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel presented a memo to the White House last month detailing such, according to Politico. Continue reading “Lara Trump criticizing the Women’s March probably isn’t going to win Trump more women voters”

Marching to Power

The following article by Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website January 19, 2018:

President Donald Trump ignited a fire within women. And it’s still burning one year after the inaugural Women’s March.

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Donald Trump had just been sworn in as president, and millions of women responded by taking to the streets the very next day in what would become one of the largest, if not the largest, single-day demonstration in U.S. history. They clogged the streets of Washington, D.C. by the hundreds of thousands, while “sister marches” were held in venues big and small, including the ten who demonstrated in Adak, the westernmost town in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

It might have been a one-day thing, kind of a counter-celebration to the lesser-attended inauguration the day before and a chance for the the losers to let off steam after the 2016 elections. Instead, the Women’s March gave voice to frustrations and grievances women had been grumbling more quietly about for years. The number of women running for office (and winning already) has exploded. And as marchers prepare this weekend to hold similar (though most likely smaller) anniversary events across the country, those who attended the 2017 events have mixed feelings – excited about the women’s activism they have unleashed, but wondering a year into the Trump administration, what the movement has accomplished. Continue reading “Marching to Power”

Women Are Driving the Resistance

The following article by Shilpa Phadke and Emily Tisch Sussman was posted on the Center for American Progress website October 27, 2017:

A woman speaks to demonstrators during what was billed as the second in a series of “Resist Trump Tuesdays,” as protesters supporting a multitude of causes gather around to listen, January 31, 2017, at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza in New York. Credit: AP/Kathy Willens

The 2016 election season was a troubling reminder of the stubborn persistence of sexism and misogyny. Whether or not they chose to vote, millions of women across the United States were forced to confront a stark reality: Their country had elected a president who built his campaign on division, professing to want to empower women even as he consistently embraced and deployed hostile, disparaging rhetoric about and toward women. President Donald Trump has also surrounded himself with and elevated men—such as Vice President Mike Pence, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and Attorney General Jeff Sessions—who have consistently supported anti-women policies.

The past year has seen unrelenting attacks on women and families, from threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood to the rollback of efforts on equal pay and access to contraception. But there has been one bright spot—the women from all walks of life who have been spurred to renew their political activism. Whether these women have been involved in community activism for years or are engaging for the first time, they are making it clear that they can lead in directing the state of the country. Continue reading “Women Are Driving the Resistance”

Women’s March organizers announce date for general strike

The following article by Sophie Tatum was posted on the CNN website February 16, 2017:

The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington have set the date for their general strike, dubbed “A Day Without A Woman,” for March 8, which is International Women’s Day.

The group previously announced their plan for a general strike but didn’t give the date until Tuesday.

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The Tyranny of A Minority President Has Begun — And So Has The Resistance

The following article by @LOLGOP was posted on the National Memo website January 23, 2017:

Donald Trump’s official presidential bio contains about a half-dozen attempts to convince someone — probably himself — that his win was a massive blowout and not a shameful, slight fluke only made possible by the intervention of a foreign government and a domestic conspiracy to get the FBI director to interfere in the democratic process during the final weeks, twice.

This sad overcompensation — like the emergency White House press briefing called Saturday night to lie about the size of of his inauguration crowd as the largest protests in U.S. history raged against the new president — isn’t an accident. Continue reading “The Tyranny of A Minority President Has Begun — And So Has The Resistance”

Women’s marches: More than one million protesters vow to resist President Trump

The following article by Perry Stein, Steve Hendrix and Abigail Hauslohner was posted on the Washington Post website January 22, 2017:

More than 1 million people gathered in Washington and in cities around the country and the world Saturday to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inauguration of President Trump. What started as a Facebook post by a Hawaii retiree became an unprecedented international rebuke of a new president that packed cities large and small — from London to Los Angeles, Paris to Park City, Utah, Miami to Melbourne, Australia.

The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, who originally sought a permit for a gathering of 200,000, said Saturday that as many as half a million people participated. On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.) Continue reading “Women’s marches: More than one million protesters vow to resist President Trump”