‘I want my voice heard’: Women plot runs for office in record numbers
- Written by 21Globe
NBC News - WASHINGTON — In November 2016, Debbie Walsh was worried. Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, feared that attendance at the group’s upcoming campaign crash course for female political candidates was about to plummet. After all, the first female presidential nominee of a major party — a former First Lady, senator and secretary of state, to boot — had just been defeated by a man with no previous political experience and a well-documented record of demeaning comments about women.