Mets hire Elizabeth Benn as highest-ranking woman in baseball operations
Benn's hiring arrives amid a tumultuous period in the Mets' front office.
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Benn's hiring arrives amid a tumultuous period in the Mets' front office.
Independents and young voters. >> martha: still under water in both of those, but doing better? >> lara: of course i say people are not honest when it comes to polling with the president. we feel good about the numbers and always said our fundraising supports the fact women are optimistic about donald trump and supporting him. our first quarter, we had over half donations from women, whereas in 2016, that was a quarter from women. >> martha: that is interesting. >> lara: that is a better measure, i think. >> martha: lake, democratic strategist, been around a long time, she said he had a big ge...
Say, well, i didn't vote for him, but everyone in my family did, you know, it's time for a lot of american citizens who are so frustrated and disgusted by this president, they have to do the work in their own families to make sure that this does not happen again. because this particular president is getting more and more vicious in his attacks. >> professors, i don't tell my brothers how to vote and they don't tell me how to vote. good luck with that one. i'm not sure that's going to work. let me go to peter. i disagree, professor, i think it is front page news. i think everybody is going to p...
Like that. when women candidates who may be new to politics, decide they want to run, there is no one there to help guide them to promote them and fund them, if they don't have resources of their own. the second problem is that the republican party agenda is becoming hostile to women. and with the symbol of donald trump, who is -- it's becoming a gender problem in general for them. for years and years, they had the support of white women. for the first time, you see in 2018, you saw that flip. and now, donald trump, for example, has quite a gap in support for white women. there is no group of ...
Most exciting i think new sort of generation of leadership in the democratic party is by diverse progressive bike alexandria ocasio-cortez and ilhan omar, rashaada tlaib. we see a historic amount of women dominate the presidential field and you see kamala harris and elizabeth warren surging in the polls. but we have to point out it's deeper than just the gender problem. it's about we have not provided solutions as a democratic party or as a country. we have not provided solutions that are matching the scale scope and urgency to the problems that we're facing right now. and i think voters are r...