DEMS/ELECTIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “He called Nancy Pelosi ‘an MS-13 lover.’ He deemed Maxine Waters a ‘low-IQ person.’ He dubbed Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas.’ President Donald Trump has never been shy about branding his female political enemies with personal and demeaning insults. But here in Missouri, where Claire McCaskill is facing off against Josh Hawley in one of the closest Senate races in the country, Trump has held his tongue…The president, already reviled by millions of women who have rallied against him in record numbers, finds himself in the position of facing off against an army of powerful female Democrats — both incumbents like McCaskill and newcomers like Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is among the wave of women seeking higher office in the wake of Trump’s presidency. Indeed, one of the ironies of Trump’s presidency, which oozes a uniquely Trumpian brand of macho bravado, is that it unleashed a new generation of women who are running for office in record numbers. And of the 24 Senate Democrats up for reelection, 11 of them are women, including several in tight elections.”
–Andrew Restuccia, “Name-calling Trump treads lightly with some female candidates,” Politico, November 1, 2018 10:36 pm