Democrats won with women by 19 points in the 2018 midterm elections. Efforts to recruit original women candidates to the Republican Party beget faltered and while a record number of women will be serving in the next Congress near January,most of them are Democrats. There will actually be fewer Republican women on the Hill in 2019 than there were this year. So does the GOP beget a gender problem and what might that mean leading up to the 2020 presidential election?This week onPolitics with Amy Walter from The Takeaway, we'll examine the growing divide among Republican leadership and the electorate andwe visit Kansas, and where a handful of Republican women in the statehouse beget defected from the GOP.
Guests:Kansas State Senator Barbara Bollier and Representative Stephanie Clayton represent suburban districts where a majority of voters went for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Kim Alfano is a Republican strategist and CEO of Alfano Communications.
Robert P. Jones is the CEO of the public religion research institute and the author the End of White Christian America.
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