Boogeywomen -- GOP vilifies big-name female Dems

BY MELANIE ZANONA - 08/18/18 12:51 PM EDT

Republicans have made attacks on high-profile Democratic women a key part of their strategy for holding onto congressional majorities.

The GOP aims to cast rank-and-file Democrats as puppets of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and other Democratic boogeymen, calculating that suburban and rural voters won’t want to replace their Republican lawmakers with Democrats beholden to the party’s power brokers.

But while those tactics fire up President Trump’s conservative base, it risks turning off the suburban and college-educated women seen as a crucial voting blocs in the fall — especially since so many of the GOP targets happen to be women.

“Republicans need to be careful and smart about the language they use when they’re critical of female opponents,” Doug Heye, a GOP strategist, said in a telephone interview with The Hill.

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