| November Mon, 2023
Melinda French Gates calls for women’s parity in political leadership
Her support ranges from groups conducting research and analysis, like the Center for American Women and Politics, to organizations supporting women of color like Higher Heights and Latinas Represent.
| October Mon, 2023
Ex-NJ Gov. Christie holds 2-hour town hall in New Hampshire in bid for presidential nomination
Dr. Saladin Ambar is a political science professor at the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics. He studied Christie as governor through the Rutgers Center on the American Governor. “He was doing something Trump-like before Trump was even a real serious contender. So I think he appeals to that spirit of fighting,” Ambar says.
| October Mon, 2023
Nikki Haley vs. ‘President Harris’
“We’re just not used to seeing women who are very different but share the same demographic identities running against each other,” Dittmar says. “Nikki Haley is just using the same strategy that all the white guys have used.”
| October Mon, 2023
Why is Kamala Harris so unpopular in the polls?
“I do think it speaks to the higher level of scrutiny that [Harris has] faced throughout her time as both a candidate and now an officeholder,” Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics, told Yahoo News.