If there is one thing clear from Tuesday's primaries it is this that women candidates are

breaking all kinds of records.

During this fall's midterm elections, more women running for office at all levels.

An unprecedented number of women ran for office, most of them Democrats.

Women who had never run for anything before stepped up to put their names on the ballot.

I don't want anyone to elect me because I'm a woman, but we need to elect me because

I'm better.

By and large, they adopted the party strategy of talking about unifying issues.

Overall the two top issues are healthcare in the economy.

The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

We must protect it as we must protect Medicare.

And they plead down what they saw as more polarizing issues, like abolishing ICE, Medicare

for all.

And especially, they avoid talking about impeaching the president.

Let's see how the Mueller probe plays out and then go from there.

And that strategy, it worked.

Washington is about to get a lot more female.

Democrats took back the House of Representatives and they embarked on an even more difficult

second phase of the strategy, which is to actually govern in the same fashion.

If they or the president want to get anything done the next two years, they will now have

to work together.

But among those winners this fall, was the smaller wave of candidates who were challenging

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