Warren tackling sexism “head-on” was a gamble— but maybe her best shot
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“I think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people’s winning record,” she said on stage in Des Moines. “So can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women.”
As for Warren herself, it’s difficult to overstate just how big a backlash she risked by escalating the conflict rather than changing the subject. On Tuesday, the Cut’s Rebecca Traister detailed the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t gender dynamics at play in a post headlined “The Third Rail of Calling ‘Sexism.’”
In November, a New York Times/Siena College poll of battleground states found that 41 percent of Biden supporters who said they wouldn’t support Warren next November if she were nominee also agreed that most women who run for president “just aren’t that likable.
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