 Republicans definitely know that they are in trouble when it comes to women voters. Why? Well, I mean take a guess it's because of their extremism with regard to the issue of abortion and they made matters exponentially worse when after the Dobbs decision was announced, they all in unison started squawking about how if they take back power They would like to institute a federal abortion ban So they broadcast it to women everywhere that they want them to be second-class citizens Indefinitely because they don't want this decision to be overruled They want to make it so that way women everywhere do not have access to their own reproductive autonomy And it's hurting them and they know it's hurting them So it's led to two separate strategies first is a lot of them backtracking when it comes to their formally extremist views on abortion and another probably my favorite is Is them trotting out their wives to I guess prove that they don't hate women because if they have a wife and their wife loves them And they love their wife then checkmate libs. They don't hate women I mean, they just think that they shouldn't have bodily autonomy and should be reduced to second-class citizens effectively But they don't hate women So let's get into this article from Politico that kind of breaks this down because they know Consultants know GOP candidates know they are fucked if they don't turn things around Republicans the selection cycle thought they had finally achieved a breakthrough with suburban women after years of losing support Now as the primary season has all but ended the GOP is back where it once was Appealing directly to skeptical female voters the women whose support will make or break the party's drive to retake the Senate majority A sure sign one after the other Republican nominees in top Senate battlegrounds have softened backpedaled and sought to clarify their abortion After the Supreme Court dobs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade Another is that male candidates have begun putting their wives in front of the camera to speak directly to voters in new television ads Those ads along with public and internal polling data Suggest that the GOP struggle to attract women voters may turn out to be the biggest obstacle Standing between the party and a potential Senate majority in 2023 a Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday Showed that abortion was the single most likely issue to drive respondents to vote this fall above inflation and 52% of white suburban women say they would support a Democratic candidate in the election the poll found while only 40% Said they would vote for the Republican quote I'm convinced that based on numbers we have Republicans have to make some kind of leap on the abortion issue said Chuck Kaufflin an Arizona based GOP strategist Because they're getting killed among women and rightfully so it's almost like you didn't listen When we all told you that this would backfire because abortion is an issue with broad public support And maybe women don't like that a bunch of male lawmakers are reducing them to second-class citizenship status When they have no idea how reproduction even works like they've demonstrated How ignorant they are on basic human anatomy and for them to construct these laws that affect women in a profound way Of course, there's backlash of course women are pissed and if they're scared They should be because there is a direct correlation between the Dobbs decision and women registering to vote For example, this Washington Post maps out voter registration among women throughout the year And as you can see there was a huge spike in Kansas at least after the draft opinion leaked But after the Dobbs decision was announced you see massive spikes in all three states accounted for here with women Accounting for 70% of new registrations in Kansas over 60% in Pennsylvania and women accounting for 55% Of new registrations in Florida. I mean this is a horrible sign for the GOP women were galvanized by this ruling and Republicans made matters worse by leaning into it and now they're having to backpedal and as the article laid out Some GOP candidates, you know, they try to stake their claim on this issue Let it be known that they are extremist forced birthers Blake Masters, for example He stated that he wanted a federal personhood law or ideally a constitutional amendments Which would ban abortion nationwide So what happened now? Well, he had to scrub his website of references to his formerly extremist views on abortion And now all he talks about is later abortion and the Hyde amendment That's quite the turnaround is it not and I actually have a more in-depth Video coming up in a couple days. So definitely check that out But how are other Republicans dealing with this? Well, some of them are kind of just admitting it like Marco Rubio, for example He's saying he supports abortion ban. So he's defiant But at least he's admitting now that his position is not the majority position now others like Tom Emmer Who is the chair of the NRCC is just shrugging off poles Insisting that abortion is less salient than other issues and not only is he denying that this issue is Really important to people But this is what he said on Fox News with a straight face in response to polls showing how bad they're doing About the Democratic Party's attempt to codify Roe v. Wade. Take a look Good luck to them trying to defend their extreme position Every one of them voted for what I call the Chinese Genocide bill which would allow abortion up to moments before a child takes its first breath I think our candidates know how to message that and they'll be just fine in the midterms I would say that they lost their credibility six years ago with the Russian collusion hoax and while they're doing all this Hunter Biden is still out there being able to pedal influence all around the world and they do nothing to him Americans are pissed off about that. They're gonna show up in November and Democrats are gonna answer for it Oh, please. I am begging you. Please fixate on Hunter Biden. I promise you it's gonna go great for you Please do that Republicans. That would be incredible. Now. Look Republicans here and there They can they can fuck up right they can shrug this off But if you are the chair of the NRC see you've got to look at these polls and you've got to take them seriously But Tom Emmer sees this iceberg that ahead and he's like it's fine All right, you're wrong But I want you to keep it up with this particular position keep shrugging it off So that way you have this wake-up call Hopefully a brutal wake-up call come November now I want to get more into how Republicans are trotting out their wives because this it just shows you how Desperate they are and it speaks to how dishonest and fake these politicians are so back to the political article in August Republicans Senate nominees in top battleground states began to bring female family members on screen to vouch for them the male GOP candidates in Ohio, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado had their wives speak directly to the camera about their character While the Republican woman trying to flip a Senate seat in Washington has released two direct-to-camera ads in the last two weeks Designed to convey nuance on abortion in Ohio JD Vance's wife Usha sat at a kitchen table Talking about Vance's hardships as a child and being raised by his grandmother Nevada GOP nominee Adam Licks salt's wife Jamie sat next to him on a sofa as they talked about his difficult childhood the ad shows photos of a young lax halt and his single mother and Celeste O'Day the wife of Colorado GOP Senate nominee Joe O'Day was the latest spouse to be featured in the series of Republican ads The spot launched just days after O'Day's campaign released a digital video Featuring his adult daughter discussing her father's support for abortion rights access to contraception and same-sex marriage quote Our problem is particularly white middle-aged women set a Republican working on Senate races who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal data Well, we need to soften our guys and softening the image of Republican men is exactly what they're trying to do So I just want to give you a couple of examples here. Here's two ads Showing the way that they're trying to soften the image images of these forced brother candidates By trotting out their wives and like showing them all happy with their family because how could you be a monster? If you're happy with your family take a look our family story is an Ohio story My husband JD grew up in Middletown and things weren't easy JD shared his family story when he wrote Hillbilly elegy and he wants for Ohio what Ohio gave him a fighting chance Every day I see families that are struggling as a dad and as attorney general Adam is a protector victims of abuse assault human trafficking Opioids the system failed them. I had to do something Adam always fights for what's right This is about all our children and the future of their country. That's why he's running for Senate Nevada families need someone to fight for them. I'm Adam Laxalt and I approve this message Well, there you have it. They have wives. So they don't hate women if you hated women You wouldn't have a wife. So Gotcha, I Mean it's so fake so phony the second that the polls change This is what they do in a desperate attempt to pander to women They trot out their wives and understand how patronizing this is this is an insult to the intelligence of women around the country Do they honestly believe that women are that stupid? Where women are just gonna be like well, you know, I really like having the freedom to make decisions about my own health care But then I saw JD Vance's wife and I just thought okay. He's also holding the baby I guess I can forgive him over him restricting my right as an American citizen I mean, who's gonna who's gonna fall for this? This is how desperate they are though where they can't really win on the substance So they have to aesthetically try to pander to women by saying look, I'm with a woman She seems pretty satisfied with me. Uh-huh well, I Love that they're in this position. I love it Republicans are backed into a corner. They were so loud Letting their freak flag fly talking about how they want to subject all women across the country in all 50 states to their first Forced birther agenda and now just months later They see how that backfired and a majority of women in some states battleground states key states are In rows registering to vote Pissed off at what the Republican Party did now to be clear the Supreme Court did this But this was pushed for by the GOP for the last 50 fucking years So this is a disaster potentially of their own making I just hope that this momentum continues and women everywhere come out in droves to stick it to these Republicans who thought That they could get away with making women second-class citizens by turning back the clock 50 years I really hope that they suffer the consequences electorally and it seems like even if you know, that's not a guarantee at this point in time. I Mean just to see them squirm like this Love to see it. I absolutely love to see it. So there you have it