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Notes from America with Kai Wright

The Original Nasty Woman

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jeannette Rankin had a belief: That women were essential to the health of our democracy. She became the first woman elected to Congress over a century ago. Now, Kathleen Williams is vying to follow in her footsteps. Plus, what if we filled all 435 seats in the House with women? Would it make a difference? The United States of Anxiety is supported in part by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Additional support for WNYC’s election coverage is provided by Emerson Collective, The New York Community Trust, and New York Public Radio Trustee Dr. Mary White. Loading...

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0:00.0

I Brett M. Cabenaw do solemnly swear.

0:05.0

I Brett M. Cabenall be fondly swear.

0:09.0

Brett Cabenaw was sworn into his lifetime seat on the Supreme Court 29 days before the coming

0:16.2

midterm elections.

0:17.9

It's already been an election defined by enthusiasm among women as voters and as candidates.

0:23.1

So how has Kavanaugh's confirmation impacted things?

0:27.2

One of the people we've been talking to in trying to understand this moment is Kelly

0:31.0

Dittmarz of the Center for Women in American Politics. is Kelly

0:34.3

is co-author of a seat at the table, Congress Women's perspective on why their presence matters.

0:41.2

So Kelly, what do you know about how the Kavanaugh battle has

0:43.9

influenced things so far? For women, it's energizing on both sides. So among

0:50.4

the Democratic progressive women that were already

0:53.0

mobilized around a sense of imbalance of power between men and women,

0:58.0

this just further reinforced the idea that the Republican Party is not a party that listens to women's voice. the of Brett Kavanaugh and were almost energized in that defense and in the defense of the

1:14.7

president and so you could also see it sort of raising their attention towards voting

1:20.0

in November.

1:21.0

Certainly watching Twitter every few minutes somebody was like, here's what you can do with this

1:24.9

anger, give your money to this candidate, give your money to this part of the campaign.

1:29.6

So what does that money mean with just 28 days left? Why is that money

1:33.4

important?

1:34.0

So we run these really long campaigns, but the reality is the

1:37.5

majority of the public isn't paying attention until the last minute.

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