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Dec 16, 2022

The Media Is Trying to Scare Women of Color Out of Running for—and Winning—Office. Is Anyone Going to Stop Them?

By Rindha Sudhini “Jesse Watters says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can’t run for president until she’s married with kids” “Lauren Boebert makes anti-hijab comment against Ilhan Omar” “Newt Gringich called VP Harris ‘a prospect crazy enough to satisfy the left who checks the box of being a woman of color.’” What do all these headlines have…
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