Katie Paris says it best: "We don’t like extremism,” said Katie Paris, an organizer who founded Red Wine & Blue, a group working to mobilize suburban women in battleground states like Ohio, Michigan and North Carolina. “We’re seeing it in deeply personal, local...
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The political fight over pandemic policy is playing out in America's suburbs, where some of the same voters -- namely suburban women -- who propelled Democrats to big wins in the 2018 and 2020 elections are now breaking ranks ahead of this year's midterms." Read more...
Suburban women helped Biden, Democrats win. This group wants to keep it that way.
Red, Wine and Blue, an Ohio-based nonprofit advocacy group, is expanding its reach with a podcast and a move into other battleground states. An Ohio group that specializes in nudging suburban women toward progressive candidates will launch a national podcast and...
The Field: Why Suburban Women Changed Their Minds
In America’s increasingly divided political landscape, it can be hard to imagine almost any voter switching sides. One demographic group has provided plenty of exceptions: white suburban women. In the past four years, the group has turned away from the president in...
‘Please Like Me,’ Trump Begged. For Many Women, It’s Way Too Late.
The white suburban voters the president needs to carve a path to victory have turned away from him, for deeply personal reasons. Kate Rabinovitch voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016, but she supports Joseph R. Biden Jr. this year.
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