Political Scientist at CSUSB studying gender and media, 538 contributor (RIP), & I lead research @ the Geena Davis Institute. Fan of elections & multiracial pluralistic democracy. Idahoan. Subscribe to Gender Gap: https://meredithconroy.substack.com
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Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.
He absolutely hates endorsing women.
Studies find incumbent women are much more likely to be challenged in their primaries for a lot of reasons, but one being that they're seen as easier targets. In the Trump era that target is even bigger!
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You cannot address the underlying causes of bad-faith conspiracy theories. Any measures you introduce to speed up the count will be seized on as a pretext to claim the election is now less secure. (We want only paper ballots meticulously hand-counted by candlelight, and all results instantly!)
I talked with AFP about why the President seems so weirdly fixated on attractive young men.
Actually, I want them to change this question. Don't ask, who won the 2020 election? Instead ask, who won the 2016 election? Who won the 2024 election? Who won the 2012 election? Then finish with 2020. Make them own the contrast.
Democrats and the press should judo flip Trump's Los Angeles election lies. It's clear that Trump knows he's lying because rigging a mayoral primary is a federal crime. Trump has thoroughly corrupted DOJ, but all his U.S. attorney in LA can do is huff and puff. So let's have it out...
Where things stand in the Los Angeles mayoral primary.
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Over the weekend I wrote about the "feminize your opponent" strategy the GOP is deploying in the Texas Senate race and its long history. Read here!
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Great essay from @meredithconroy.bsky.social !!! Especially the historical timeline of "feminizing opponents" in US elections and the rain the appeal is effective --
"(a man) who doesn’t perform masculinity “correctly” can feel like a challenge to a worldview they hold dear."
I beg people who write essays like this to consider gender. I beg.
And I genuinely -- genuinely -- want to see how a rural lady candidate would do while performing the "toughness" signifiers. Split some wood. Ride a horse. Sort some pigs. Herd some cattle. Drive a tractor.
Rarely a week goes by without US President Donald Trump lavishing praise on the bodies of men he meets -- fawning over "the muscles on this guy," or an athlete's "tree trunk" legs, or a UFC fighter wh...
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William Adler
Brian Beutler
Meredith Conroy
Over on Elon's website @rokhanna.bsky.social is pouring gasoline on rightwing's paranoia and conspiracies around California's election.
This is not just idiotic - this is disgraceful stuff from a Democrat.
Over the weekend I wrote about the "feminize your opponent" strategy the GOP is deploying in the Texas Senate race and its long history. Read here!
meredithconroy.substack.com/p/how-femini...
José Marichal
Danielle Kurtzleben
Let's not just roll our eyes and hope for the best again.
BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?
TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy
B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results
T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that
B: So you're going to use the same script
