{"id":97,"date":"2018-05-31T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/herpowernetwork\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-05-31T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T23:45:14","slug":"what-happens-when-the-new-wave-of-women-in-politics-face-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/herpowernetwork\/what-happens-when-the-new-wave-of-women-in-politics-face-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When The New Wave Of Women in Politics Face Each Other?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidates and former state Reps. Stacey Abrams, left, and Stacey Evans get ready to debate May 15 in Atlanta. (John Amis\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">The historic wave of women running for Congress and governor this year already has landed 78 women on November ballots in several states. It also has revealed an uncomfortable truth: To seize political power in a landscape still dominated by men, many women are going to have to defeat another woman along the way.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">Dozens of such contests already have been held that elevate one woman and disappoint another, a reckoning that resumes June\u00a05, when eight states hold primaries. Stacey Abrams made history as the first black woman to be a major-party nominee in the country, but she had to beat fellow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/election-results\/georgia\/?tid=a_inl_auto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>\u00a0state legislator Stacey Evans in a May\u00a022 race to get there.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">Some women running against other women said they found this new dynamic liberating in a cycle where Democrats have made clear at the ballot box that they want to send a woman to Congress, where men still outnumber women 5 to 1. And most of the female candidates are Democrats, many of whom are appealing to voters with overt references to women\u2019s rights, #MeToo and the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\"><em>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/theres-a-wave-of-women-running-for-office-what-happens-when-they-face-each-other\/2018\/05\/31\/2f5ab6a2-5ad8-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.9625a3b9e2d7\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidates and former state Reps. Stacey Abrams, left, and Stacey Evans get ready to debate May 15 in Atlanta. (John Amis\/AP) The historic wave of women running for Congress and governor this year already has landed 78 women on November ballots in several states. It also has revealed an uncomfortable truth: To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5770,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-women-in-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Happens When The New Wave Of Women in Politics Face Each Other? - Her Power Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/herpowernetwork\/what-happens-when-the-new-wave-of-women-in-politics-face-each-other\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Happens When The New Wave Of Women in Politics Face Each Other?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidates and former state Reps. 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