Gains republican women and incumbents made in this years general election. Good morning. Guest good morning, it is great to join you. Host what is the network of enlightened women . It is a premier organization for conservative university women. We work to educate, equip, empower young conservative women to be leaders of a free society. That means we have chapters on College Campuses across the country. We have been around more than 15 years. We have a professional network full of alums and professionals that want a community of likeminded conservative women to empower them to live their best life and to speak up and to be community leaders. Host when you write out the name of your organization, you e a small e in enlightened. Canucks plan that . That you learned quickly the names of organizations and acronyms matter. That e stood out to different and a contrasted with the uppercase o. We were focused on reading books, bringing women together, we wanted to be open and bring women together. We thought that lowercase e struck the town. Host you work with young conservative women on campus. Did you work with conservative women with the election from last week . 501 c 3 are a organization so focused on educating and training. Women look up to these women who won elections. That is the story im excited to talk about you talk about with you today. Our students read magazines like cosmo and clamor and some of the and glamour and some of the younger women Pay Attention to teen vogue. Thelook at those and all the election. On most were on one new member of the squad and one new member who will be joining them. When it comes to women and the 2020 election is the republican women in the house. Before this election, there were 13 republican women in the house. In the 2018 midterm, only one new republican woman was elected to the house. That is a completely different story it is a different story this time. Newlye an we have 16 elected republican women in the house. That is a big story. That is what i would love to see the womens magazine and Womens Movement talk about. They come from diverse backgrounds have Different Reasons for running, and have great stories. Host if we are seeing the numbers correctly, the Record Number of republican women ever serving at the same time in the u. S. House was 25. That was a setback in 2006. When Congress Begins next year, there will be a Record Number of republican women in congress, there will be 28. Fromt doubling the number the current number of republican women in the house right now. What made this change . Host guest a few things happened. The congresswoman from new york during the midterms recruited a lot of women. Many of them lost. Only one new woman was elected among republicans. Andstarted a new pac played in primaries. This is an organized effort to get more women elected starting by working with them in the primaries. I believe that made it difference. Made a difference. We have heard the story about women on the left any elections but those women dont speak for all americans. We are in the 100th anniversary of women earning the right to vote in this country and i think the number of women we saw when n showshat saw wi that we are not a monolithic voting block. Conservative women saw those women on the left stand up and went and they dont speak for all women. These women wanted to run and make sure their voices were heard and their policy decisions were discussed. A lot of women were running from a probusiness background that focused on cutting regulations to make sure that all americans have the opportunity to start businesses and they dont get overregulated by the government. There are issues we dont see women on the left talking about and that motivated women on the right to run. Host you can join in on this conversation. We are going to open up our regular lines. Democrats can call 2027488000, republicans at 2027488001, independents at 2027488002. You can text us at 2027488003 and we are always reading on social media on twitter at cspanwj and that facebook. Com cspan. Byse elections one conservative women, were there issues that seem to resonate around the nation . Guest one of the issues i think that is going to emerge is antisocialism. We have seen socialism gain a renewed popularity on the left. My work in on my work on College Campuses. There are chapters of the juncker democraticsocialist club on college canvases. 15 yearss a student ago, there were some socialists. But the democrats really tempered them. I dont think that is an item they wanted on the resume but now it is gaining popularity. In part because of alexandria ocasiocortez. To know these new Republican House members, three of them have had direct family connections or have face problems from socialism. Mytoria hartz from Congressional District in indiana is from ukraine. You have maria salazar, one of her parents is from cuba. You have women who have a direct relationship and have directly faced socialism in their lives. They have had a different expanse than the socialism that alexandria ocasiocortez and the squad is selling americans. Im excited to have new spokeswomen against socialism and having them speak out against the problems against socialism with socialism. Host you were talking about the diverse backgrounds of these conservative women going to congress. There is a paragraph talking about these backgrounds i want to read. Marjoriet that Taylor Greene made headlines for her support of qanon theories while owns a gun themed restaurant that the five shutdown orders and were Service Carry firearms. Maria lrs salazar is a journalist worked for the spanishlanguage network telemundo. She flipped her district as did Stephanie Bice of oklahoma. All ofschbach of whom served before in their statehouse. Cynthia Cynthia Loomis will be the first woman to represent wyoming in the u. S. Senate. She is an attorney and former lawmaker. These women are coming from different expenses but they will be representing their districts and states in different expanse is but they will be representing their districts and states in congress. How are you getting these women into the primaries and having them when . Win . Hem guest when i asked questions about how there are fewer republican or conservative women at the federal level, i like to take it back to the state level. State legislatures are often pipelines to leadership. On the right, there has been an fourt to ask more women state legislator seats. That has women being on the seat and ready to run for congressional seats. As i was reading through bios during this election season, i thought it was interesting. Who wereany candidates against socialism. Another theme was that many had experience at the state and local level. Another thing i saw emerge was many had experience in business. Many people had bad business experience with the government and that was a motivator to run. I dont think we can undervalue having that state and local experience. Motivatingtant and a factor for women considering running and wants to have National Influence where they can make a difference and want to have National Influence where they can make a difference. Host you were talking about the pac that helped women get into primaries. Did anything change in the Republican Partys approach and supporting candidates in 2020 . Was the gop helpful in this process . Guest you would have to ask those candidates but i can tell you from what i saw there was a lot of support from the local, national, and state level once they got there primaries. Pac made the difference was at the local level. Then he saw the party coalesce around many of these candidates then you saw the party coalesce around these candidates. Host we will start with beverly who is calling from brooklyn, new york on the democratic line. I would like to ask, i see concern of the terminology in reference to socialism. Can you offer a clear understanding about what are the tenets of socialism and how do they get tied to fellow americans . I would like litigation on that clarification on that. On the rise of gop women, do you think it is a backlash to some of the behaviors seen by trump and that now more women are trying to step up and participate in the election process . Guest thank you so much for your question. , the waybout socialism i would look at it is what is the role of government in our lives. Government as not the answer to all of my problems. I would rather have more governance at the local and state level. I think what we are seeing in this brand of socialism emerging with alexandria ocasiocortez leading it, she is talking about things like the Green New Deal and medicare for all. A much bigger role for the government and that is what concerns me. She is selling it as a softer, gentler socialism. What we have seen historically we have seen historically it doesnt work and it wont stay soft for long. She might sell it as it is going to help people but i think we should be worried about what it will do to our life. Host we were talking about the diverse backgrounds of the conservative women headed towards congress. One of our followers has a question about this topic. This is from brat from dayton, ohio says i think it is great to increase the dissipation the participation of conservative women. I applaud their achievement. Is the network of enlightened women socially diverse and do allow lesbian women and couples to equally participate. Guest our chapters are based at the College Level and we bring events ringing people in from across the spectrum and with different views. That is one thing we are excited about. At our National Conference each year, we will bring in two people with opposing views, sometimes a democrat and a republican, sometimes two republicans. We are focused on intellectual diversity which i think we need to see more of on College Campuses. A new study came out this year from the Cato Institute that self censoriberals conservatives surveyed censored. Whether they want to learn more or just want to learn how to engage and try to turn someones mind on something. We try to bring in a lot of people to the organization. Guest tell us what you mean by host tell us what you mean by selfcensor. Guest in this study by the Cato Institute, they looked at it a and they asked people if they kept their views quite. Quiet. When they are in a job, they might not mention what their politics are. Conservative stated more. Conservatives did. It more did it more. Ony found republicans College Campuses the longer they were in higher education, if they were getting advanced degrees, they would selfcensor even more. When we talk with College Students, many decide to keep their views private. We put out a book and in it we shared stories of women. Many of them decided to keep their views quite before quiet before they stepped on campus. That is something we should be concerned about, that is something you cant fix by a new policy from school administration. That is a cultural problem. That is peer pressure. It is not just grades they were worried about, they were worried about making friends. College for many students is about making lifelong friends. I think we live in a country where there is so much pressure that many conservative students decide to keep quiet. That is a problem. I was interested in this data because it confirmed what i heard in stories and College Students from College Students about this pressure to keep quite. It is on the Cato Institutes website. It goes into hiring and job data and how much conservative versus how theirorry about views might impact their career prospects. Greg callingo to from tennessee on the republican line. Caller good morning. I want to congratulate the women that got elected into the house. I hope we get a new speaker of the house out of this. We need nancy pelosi to go. Guest thank you for calling it. It is interesting you touched on nancy pelosi because we have seen some democrats speak out. There is interparty fighting about socialism and the direction of their party. We have seen one congresswoman speak out to say she is not going to vote for nancy pelosi. That relationship between the current president and nancy pelosi has become toxic. There doesnt seem to be any effort to work together. It seems to have become personal. I think she is marching the democrats for the left which is not the direction the American People want to go. We have seen this with the handling of covid and stimulus checks. To hear if youed recall in and say they are ready for her to go. To call in and say they are ready for her to go. Host pelosi was asked about those topical differences between the Democratic Party and house members. Heres what she said. [video clip] progress, in these philosophical differences when it is going to be more to the left. If you are going to get something done regardless of this year that legislation has to be more in the middle. How do you sort that out with [indiscernible] our caucus has its differences. I would not want to lead in a caucus that is a rubberstamp, lockstep caucus. That is called republicans. We are the democratic already and we have several exhibits is in our midst several exuberances in our midst. We respect that. Our unifying principle is americas working families. Everybody is there to make progress for americas working families and in terms of the children. Our children, their education, the health of their families, a safe environment in which they can thrive and a world at peace in which you can reach fulfillment. About the families, nobody is more attuned to that were connected to working families then joe biden as president of the u. S. Consensus, we dont govern from high. Unanimity, i said sick i said consensus. Host that was Speaker Pelosi talking about the differences between the members of her own caucus. What do you see as the differences between the conservative women and the issues they are going through before i go to congress. The differences between the conservative women and the Democratic Caucus and perhaps even the differences of conservative women in their own caucus . Guest a lot of these women rent tight races. They have been very campaign focused. It is not clear exactly yet what theyre going to make their number one priority. We have seen common themes emerge. Things like lowering taxes, making sure there is not too much regulation coming out of d. C. , addressing covid at the National Level but leaving some of that to the States States to figure out and at the local level. It is interesting to hear the speaker talk about intellectual diversity within their party grappleshe is going to with that she isnt have the numbers she thought after this election. Shes going to have to work with alexandria ocasiocortez and the squad and that is going to be a bigger challenge for her and she is anticipating. Host how will these new conservative women bring their voices into the Republican Congress . In the house then it was in his current congressional session. Voices in the Republican Caucus are going to be more important as well. What do these women bring to the discussions . Guest eight of the 10 seats that looked from democratic to republican were won by republican women. We talk about the big picture number. If you focus on the flip, that is a huge number. At the campaign level, there is going to be more enthusiasm for supporting republican women candidates who won. At the National Level, im excited there will be more spokeswomen, more women talking about different issues. Maybe they are some of the same issues men could talk about but it is great to have more women out there talking about them. The left always brings up the issue of people pay. It will be great for conservative women talking about that issue and how additional legislation impacts men women. I think they will find their different committees and become leaders on them. Whether it is mary miller from illinois who is a farmer or candidates who have background in business or one who is a pharmacist. They will get Good Committee assignments where they can be there expertise on issues and become National Leaders on those issues. Host you bring up one of the issues we hear women politicians talk about and that is equal pay. D. C. That becoming a big issue for conservative women do you see that becoming a big issue for conservative women either pro or con . We all americans, want equal pay for women. The question is what are the statistics being used to measure that and what is the impact of additional federal legislation on that issue. Equal pay is the law of the land in this country. We have legislation requiring equal pay. The issue is what other steps do you want federal government taking when it comes to business and their relationship with employers and put and employees. I think were good to see women become leaders on those issues they care about. Elise stefanik in her first and second term focused on the issues in her home district. Having her as a leader for many of these women, i think they will follow suit of focusing on those issues at home, continuing to earn the trust of constituents so they can be reelected, and emerge as National Leaders. Not takeesswoman did on this issue in her first term. Won reelection for her fourth term. At the National Level, they will focus on issues they know best. Im sure they will get assigned to committees with those issues and we will see them emerge as leaders. Host lets talk to barbara who was calling from florida on the democratic line. Good morning. Caller thank you for having me. Regarding the terminology that if you are a rep that if you are a republican you are on the right and conservative and if you are a democrat you are on the left and a socialist. Who im you have women would expend that, how do you go about painting those definitions go about changing those definitions . I find it difficult being who i am with those terminologies, it doesnt sit right with me. How do you see your conservatives conservative women handling those kinds of monikers . Guest im called you asked about the labels because this is something im interested in. One label we see the left has ,ned the level of feminism that they have a version of them in his that they sell women. I think the three of these conservative women and one issue not talked about is Amy Coney Barrett and her victory. The label that might have the most room for change is what does it mean to be a feminist . What does it mean to be an empowered woman . One of the things we talk about is a new brand of feminism, opportunity feminism where you focus on policies that give women the opportunity to build the lives they want. That might look very different. We should consider it a victory that it looks very different because it means that women are choosing what they want and they are empowered to choose what they want. I lookingrt of this forward to i am looking forward to is rethinking what a womens empowerment looks like, rethinking what feminism looks like today. When you ask americans if they identify as feminist, the number is lower than expected. Yet young women what some type of empowering movement. What the left is selling isnt resonating. I think the values and focus we will see from the right might change that. I think all americans should speak up for the weight he left treated Amy Coney Barrett the way the left treated Amy Coney Barrett. She made choices many of them have made. She has seven children, she is now on the supreme court. She could be able model just as nancy pelosi is to some women on the left. Im excited to see this new version of what american women what debbie walsh points out that while Many Republican women in congress, women are still very under representative over the republican side. Here is a quote, in many ways, this is a simple story, you cannot see gains in officeholders unless you have increases in the candidates. These are important gains. They need to be celebrated and acknowledge. Women are still very underrepresented on the republican side. Here is a story that says according to the pew research center, about 38 of registered women voters in 2018 and 2019 identified as republicans while only 6 of republicans in the house were women at that time. How do you change those numbers . Percentage ofge women identifying as republicans but only 6 last session in congress who are women. Should that change, and how do you change it . Think what i mentioned earlier about building a field team or pipeline of women is important. Most candidates do not just run for president or just for congress. Or onre on School Boards a board of supervisors. They are elected at that local we have seen thing to encourage more women is first ask could we have seen data that asking women matters makes a difference, so there are a lot of women asking others to run. And then not focusing on may be like and gotshal seat in trying to find someone to run for it, but taking a step back and trying to find great women candidate at the state and local level and get them in the pipeline so when there are open seats there is a chance to run, there are people ready to run. Reid from is washington on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good money. I have a question, but i would like to make a quick statement about socialism. Khrushchev said people will not buy communism, if you sell them socialism incrementally they will wake up in a commonest world. Stalin said it is not how the people but that matter, it is who counts the vote that matters. And another quick comment, why blue ns team all big all blue . Theme all blue . Host i can tell you, the carpet in here is not blue and neither is this desk, but go ahead and ask your question. Caller thank you. The question has to do with when you guessed is in the university environment, to what extent would you report that the management layer of the universities, how much do they push back against your organization . Caller thank you for that question. I would say it varies i schools. Some we find are very actively engaged, for better or worse and some have more of a hands off approach. One challenge, sometimes these , one challenge some of our clubs have faced is that many campuses require new clubs , a facultyadvisor advisor. A you are a woman student at university, a liberal who wants to start a club, there is a number of faculty that you could go to and ask. There doesnt seem to be as many conservative women faculty at these universities. Sometimes our students have a challenge finding an advisor. That is one challenge. You mentioned the administration , a study came out a year or so ago finding that it is not just faculty who are liberal that students interact with, but there seems to be a layer of administrative bureaucracy, more and more deans and assistant deans, and that someone compiled the data and found the ratio of conservative to liberal was 121. Universityng administration, and that is a staggering number. With of those are helping figuring out budgets for different programs, so that can be an issue. Who areud of the women part of our organization. They will reach out sometimes two faculty members in the business school. Sometimes we can find a friendly member there. Try to find those advisors and then put the program in. It it is great for the larger campus community. One of our chapters has done a program on socials is him socialism that has done well. We have had social events. They have to work through with their own school systems. It is a good skill of how to get something done. From this is alexis wilmington, north carolina, on the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I am retired, retired maybe five or six years. Had i had tover take because of the insurance. It was not to further my career. It was for Health Insurance paid when you save medicare for all like it is, you know, we are going to communism and socialism, i understand how important it is when you are sick to be able to see a doctor and not have to worry about scraping a copipe together. Hygienist who was bragging about only paying 600 a month for her Health Insurance. I do not know what she paper coinsurance, but that is a paid for coinsurance, but that is a devastating amount if you ask me. You do not hear lower income people calling in asking about medicare for all they are too busy working. Somebody has to speak up for them. We cannot turn our backs on people who need medical help. To say, we cannot do that because of socialism, i think that is selfish. I appreciate your calling and i hear the passion in voice. You really care about the issue and it is personal and it makes a difference, and i think health care is one of the issues that notcountry still has figured out. I do not think medicare for all is the answer. I think republicans should come up with a great alternative that they can work on to help. We want you to have the opportunity to have the health care that you need and that all americans need. It is a question of what the right policy is. This lets talk about election that just ended. Look at exit polls, it looks like that president elect biden received 57 of votes for women while christie received 42 . Looking at the story from the washington post, the gender gap began emerging as a major portion of elections in 1980 when ronald ragan one paid a slim majority have backed a democratic candidate in every election since 1996. On average, women have been a percentage for points points more likely than men to support a democratic candidate since 1980. How do you change that . How do you fight the numbers that say women seem to be gravitating toward the craddick candidate toward the democratic candidate for president . Caller there are some other nuggets that emerge in some different trends, so not just breaking down women versus men, but also single women versus married woman, breaking it down by education level. I think that based on this election where we have seen republican women do so well in some of the house races, there and programsrences for people to come together and figure out what can be learned from these women winning in these races. Looking at those numbers and sing what can be learned at the National Level, if i was a emigrant and counted a democrat, this election would signal to me there is a concern and i would be worried about the next election and how women might vote. Host this is james from connecticut on the republican line. Good morning. For taking myyou call. Say, i love my Republican Party, but i think we are beginning to lose focus on keep looking at females. What about the africanamericans . Numbersooking at the that africanamericans joining the Republican Party as opposed to women . The other thing, we have had some good victories, that cant we contribute a lot of that to President Trump because he has polarized the Party Like Never before. He got more points than any republican in history, so shouldnt we be giving him a little more praise . That is all i got to say. For yourhank you question. You brought up the different divisions by race at this election. So the is the next topic oars can stay tuned to talk more about that. If you think those numbers were unexpected on the left, conservatives have talked more about that, but how it broke down by grace and some successes that the republicans had based somethingo that was many on the right are excited about. You bring up what is going to happen Going Forward and what we can attribute this to, it seems on the left that this idea towards women, this sort of womens march idea of the protests and encouraging that i do not thinkm, that is resonating. There needs to be a new approach to women. I went to a counter rally to the womens march here, and towards the end, the march arrived and really surrounded it and started yelling. One of my friends and their children, it was not a compelling version they were presenting on the left. Not something you would want to join. It was as if they were time to intimidate the women. This does not work. If you have to yell at somebody to try to get them to follow your views, that does not work. Exciting to see a more conservative version of feminism. I think this will lead us towards more of a march towards freedom in this country. Host this is carol from houston, texas, on the democratic line. Caller good morning. This is about the socialism. It is great in this country, a lot of people have it, the people at the top. They get all of the tax breaks and it goes streets straight from the poor and the middleclass straight to them. It is great for them. That is why we do not have health care and other things we need. It would work well in these Foreign Countries if we did not interfere and place sanctions on people and tortured them until they have uprisings because they cannot get food. We will not let socialism take root anywhere. Or communism or anything else. We go to war over that because do not want to hear. Ll of those organizations say obviously, i think i stand for my own views as a conservative and no one else, and i think conservatism provides a compelling to compelling alternative to women and what we want to seek Going Forward. For we want to thank you coming on and talking about the Record Number of conser everyday we are taking your calls live on the air. We will discuss policy issues that impact you. Discussion on the u. S. Response to coronavirus. The center forut president ial transition and its role in president ial transitions. Watch live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Biden wentn and jill for a bike ride in delaware. Here is a look. Book tv has top authors every weekend. P. M. , the 1 00 southern festival of books. A book about a civil rights case that helped to reaffirm the rights of a trial by jury. Their thoughtser on Investigative Journalism and the role in democracy. 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