Rep. Susan Brooks, the head of House Republicans’ recruitment, who had prioritized mobilizing GOP women to run for office after significant losses in 2018, said Friday that she won’t seek reelection. Savage credits Brooks and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) with speaking openly about Republicans’ problem recruiting women, both as candidates and as voters. According to data from Brooks, 172 GOP women are running for the House. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos said Brooks’s retirement is endemic of the House Republican caucus’s problem recruiting and retaining women. “As the ranks of women in the House Republican caucus continues to shrink, it must be disappointing to lose such a strong advocate for Republican women,” Bustos said.

Source: Washington Post June 14, 2019 17:13 UTC