Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Thursday disputed comments made in an opinion piece for The New York Times claiming Republican women are "on the brink of extinction" in the House and Senate.
"I think this is fake news," McDaniel told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "The House has recruited 181 women to run for Congress heading into 2020," McDaniel told Fox News' "Fox and Friends," about the opinion piece by historian and author Dr. Nancy Cohen, "It's a record."
Republican women are lining up to run for Congress because they have a message that President Donald Trump's policies have worked for them, McDaniel said, adding that doubling the child tax credit and pushing for new jobs has benefitted the nation's women.
"Over 4 million jobs have gone to women," and unemployment is at a record low said McDaniel.
In her piece, Cohen pointed out that Republicans are ringing in the new year with just 13 women in the House, the lowest number since 1993, and eight women in the Senate, compared to 88 Democratic women in the House and 17 Democratic women in the Senate.
She also said that Trump's "misogyny" and the party's far-right stance on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, guns, and immigration are driving away many female voters.
"They always ignore women that are leading the way in the Republican Party, like a Kellyanne Conway, like an Ivanka Trump, like Elaine Chao, Gina Haspel, me, being only the second woman to chair the RNC, raising record money," said McDaniel. "I think that's a false headline and women all over this country recognize that President Trump's policies are working for them."
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