It includes the first Native American congresswomen, the first Muslim congresswomen and the first Palestinian-American woman.
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O'Briant argued that the four congresswomen are the ones "inciting hatred and division," and Miller suggested that it was the Democratic congresswomen who are racist.
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The vast majority of the newcomers are Democrats, including the first two Muslim congresswomen and first two Native American congresswomen, and the youngest woman ever elected.
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The U.S. elected its first Muslim-American congresswomen and its first Native-American congresswomen, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
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The big picture: The freshmen class includes 24 people of color, the first Native American congresswomen, the first Muslim congresswomen, 42 new female members and the youngest person ever elected.
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There will be 2023 Democratic women in the House next year — 35 newly elected in the midterms, including the first two Muslim congresswomen and the first two Native American congresswomen.
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He is expected to continue his attacks on the congresswomen.
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The four progressive Democratic congresswomen have also forcefully pushed back.
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Trump himself denied his attacks on the congresswomen were racist.
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Congresswomen are protesting for their right to "bare arms" — literally.
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Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee crashed the Warriors vs.
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On Tuesday he stepped up attacks on the congresswomen — Reps.
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Trump's online attacks against the congresswomen, believed to be Reps.
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All four congresswomen targeted by the tweets are U.S. citizens.
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This was the week the congresswomen leaned into their nickname.
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I chat with reporters and congresswomen from the softball teams.
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Past Tense A look at 21974 years of strong congresswomen.
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Neither did many of her fellow congresswomen most of the night.
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On Sunday, Trump attacked a group of congresswomen — implicitly the Reps.
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Only 10 congresswomen in history have given birth while in office.
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President Trump's racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen dominated news and engagement.
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" "Congresswomen Dina Titus and Jacky Rosen disqualified themselves from public office.
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Pelosi was joined on the trip by Democratic congresswomen including Reps.
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The congresswomen appear to have developed a personal relationship with Sanders.
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CNN further reported that two other highly prominent freshman congresswomen Rep.
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Among Democratic freshman congresswomen, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen.
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The congresswomen held their practice this morning, admittedly jittery but determined.
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Congresswomen shape the policy agenda to include overlooked and underaddressed issues.
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Within each party, congresswomen are now largely ideologically indistinguishable from congressmen.
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" Pelosi herself made comments that appeared to anger the congresswomen — known on Capitol Hill as "the squad" — and led one of the them, Ocasio-Cortez, to suggest the Democratic leader was "singling out freshman congresswomen of color.
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The four Democratic congresswomen were the only Democrats who voted against it.
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In a news conference on Monday, Pelosi argued the four congresswomen -- Reps.
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In turn, this led to a rise in the number of congresswomen.
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Trump said the congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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The two congresswomen have been frequent targets of Trump for their views.
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I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country.
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The new House majority includes a record number of freshman Democratic congresswomen.
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We must call on our congressmen and congresswomen to do the same.
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The group also hosted a party for Democratic Congresswomen in July 2015.
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The pair of congresswomen were expected to arrive in Israel on Friday.
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Both congresswomen called on McConnell to do more to prevent such tragedies.
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The two other congresswomen on stage, laughed but did not join in.
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The House condemned President Trump's attack on four freshmen congresswomen as racist.
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Watch the video above to hear the congresswomen in their own words.
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G.B.T.Q. stance of two new Muslim congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
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The 1970s ushered in a golden age of congresswomen from New York.
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The congressional freshman class of 2019 includes the most racially diverse and most female group of representatives ever elected to the House and boasts an avalanche of firsts, from the first Native American congresswomen to the first Muslim congresswomen.
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Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia became the state of Texas' first Latina congresswomen.
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It's time to learn how to act decently towards your fellow congresswomen, sir.
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The posts included numerous racist slurs targeted at migrants and congresswomen of color.
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Three of the four of the congresswomen were born in the United States.
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The mention of the other four Democratic congresswomen drew jeers from Trump's supporters.
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President Trump launched a bigoted attack against four minority congresswomen on Sunday morning.
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" Don Bacon, Nebraska, said, "The President's tweets toward the four Congresswomen were unacceptable.
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" Don Bacon, Nebraska, said: "The president's tweets toward the four congresswomen were unacceptable.
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Those noisy newcomer congresswomen not only have the numbers, they have the passion.
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Americans need to be calling the White House and our congressmen and congresswomen.
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The offices of the congresswomen did not respond to a request for comment.
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But Trump's attack steadily escalated, accusing the four congresswomen of hating the country.
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Trump hammered the four congresswomen at a rally in North Carolina Wednesday evening.
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President Donald Trump has has encouraged Israel to bar the congresswomen from entering.
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Former congresswomen Mia Love and Barbara Comstock introduced companion legislation in the House.
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The freshman Democrat is one of the first two Latina congresswomen from Texas.
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A so-called "alterna-squad," a group of moderate Democratic congresswomen including Rep.
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Justin Amash (I-Mich.), and members of the progressive "squad" of freshman congresswomen.
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That was particularly evident with Democratic congresswomen who created a sea of white.
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I did wear a white shirt in support of a lot of congresswomen.
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Among them were historic firsts: Texas' first Latina congresswomen; the first congresswomen of color representing Massachusetts and Connecticut; the youngest woman elected to Congress; the first Native American women; and the first Muslim women elected to Congress in American history.
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Before the march, Congresswomen Nydia Velasquez and Pramila Jayapal rallied the crowds with speeches.
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Not just for President Trump, but for future presidents or other congressmen or congresswomen.
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Of the four congresswomen, three were born in the US and all are Americans.
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The progressive congresswomen, who are popular with younger voters, could help reenergize Sanders's campaign.
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"I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country," he wrote.
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Ilhan Omar and 3 other congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries.
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And two new congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, are making their jobs easier.
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Trump did not name the congresswomen he was attacking in his Sunday tweets. Rep.
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Le Batard ripped into President Trump for his racist attacks against four Democratic congresswomen.
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Good look at some of the congresswomen wearing all-white to tonight's #Jointsession pic.twitter.
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"I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country," Trump tweeted.
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And, now, a whole new cohort of congresswomen is daring to break that norm.
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The two congresswomen had planned to visit Israel this weekend, and Israel originally approved.
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Pressley has gone on to join Ocasio-Cortez and two other new congresswomen, Reps.
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Many congresswomen are committed to increasing the numbers of women in political office. Rep.
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Gretchen Whitmer and two congresswomen who flipped Republican seats, Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin.
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I think one major characteristic of congresswomen is public speaking, having that persuasive tone.
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Trump, who has a close relationship with Netanyahu, has dubbed Tlaib and Omar — both members of "the Squad," a group of Democratic congresswomen of color he's attacked in racist tweets — "radical left congresswomen" who should apologize to both the US and Israel.
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Few lawmakers truly engaged with that information, but the freshman congresswomen were not among them.
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President Donald Trump continued his attacks on four US Congresswomen, this time singling out Rep.
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In his tweets, Trump said the congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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Short also claimed that Trump was specifically targeting one of the congresswomen, Somali-born Rep.
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I was in business, and I didn't know a lot of these Congressmen and Congresswomen.
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This is where Trump's strategy of going after four very progressive congresswomen comes into play.
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In the Capitol, Democratic congresswomen and their allies wore red and spoke out in support.
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But Trump's attacks on women on Wednesday night weren't limited to Democratic congresswomen of color.
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"Donald Trump's racist tweets were a disgusting attack on four congresswomen of color," he said.
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In a tweet on Sunday, Amash called Trump's statements about the congresswomen "racist and disgusting."
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Both congresswomen want to fight corruption, improve health care coverage and to reduce income inequality.
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And I think the congresswomen, by the way, should be more positive than they are.
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Why are she and her squad of boundary-breaking newbie congresswomen so outspoken, so demanding?
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Israeli officials say congressional Democratic leadership pushed Dermer to allow the congresswomen into the country.
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Jahana Hayes and Ilhan Omar, who are also freshman congresswomen, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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In the House, at least six Republican congresswomen have maintained some distance from the president.
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Some congresswomen say they are being greeted with "hey beautiful" by male members of Congress.
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And the number of Republican congresswomen in the House fell from 23 to just 13.
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That's despite racist tweets sent by Trump in July attacking four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color.
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In fact, three of the four congresswomen were born in America and all are American citizens.
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Opponents of the congresswomen, like Kellyanne Conway, have begun using "the Squad" in a dismissive way.
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The tweet implies that the congresswomen weren't born in America, but they all are American citizens.
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The congresswomen, especially Ocasio-Cortez, have taken to social media to defend themselves against Trump's attacks.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of the targeted congresswomen wrote in part on Twitter.
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He's sent them to Democrats like Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson -- vocal critics of Trump.
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Three of the four congresswomen were born in the United States, and all are U.S. citizens.
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Earlier this month, Trump also launched racist Twitter attacks against four Democratic congresswomen of color — Reps.
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Ilhan Omar and the three other US congresswomen targeted by President Donald Trump in recent days.
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Of the four progressive freshmen congresswomen, only Omar was born outside the US, in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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And he seems to believe he has found the perfect target in the four congresswomen: Reps.
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The four congresswomen he targeted roundly rejected Trump's statements in a press conference late Monday night.
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The congresswomen will address lawmakers Monday outside the facility whether they are granted access or not.
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Nigel Farage has enthusiastically praised Donald Trump's "go back" comments, directed at four congresswomen of colour.
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Trump sparked similar accusations of racism when he recently targeted a group of minority congresswomen: Reps.
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Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was critical of Israel's move but also of the two congresswomen.
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The country then officially barred the two freshman congresswomen, who have opposed Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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"Trump leveled racist attacks against four congresswomen of color dubbed 'the Squad,'" the Post's report reads.
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The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence blames Trump's "racial rhetoric" for increasing threats on the congresswomen.
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" The big picture: Scaramucci has said that Trump's attacks on congresswomen of color "divide the country.
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Top congressional Democrats condemned the decision to bar the two congresswomen entry to Israel on Thursday.
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Like Mr Trump, they would regard letting in the two congresswomen as a sign of weakness.
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Trump's bigoted attack on four congresswomen of color has nothing to do with fighting anti-Semitism.
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So he wants the four congresswomen front and center, which is where his tweet put them.
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Through his calls for four non-white Democratic congresswomen to "go back" where they came from.
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But the number of congresswomen in the past election didn't budge at all, remaining at 104.
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On Tuesday, the record number of congresswomen at the State of the Union speech owned that.
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In the afternoon session, two freshman Democratic congresswomen took up Mr. Meadows's question about Ms. Patton.
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Dozens of congresswomen also made a similar gesture at Trump's State of the Union address last year.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other congresswomen of color from over the weekend and into Monday, Politico reports.
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Al Green following Trump's attacks on four congresswomen that were slammed as being racist by his critics.
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He brushed off the criticism he has gotten for saying that the congresswomen should go back home.
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Al Green's push to impeach President Trump for his recent racist tweets against 4 congresswomen of color.
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Before Trump turned his ire to the four congresswomen, there was his fierce criticism of Florida Rep.
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Let's be clear about what this vile comment is: A racist and xenophobic attack on Democratic congresswomen.
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Trump tweets Outrage over President Trump's racist tweets about four Democratic congresswomen has reached a fever pitch.
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Pelosi defended the congresswomen and condemned Trump's language, and several 2020 democratic presidential hopefuls rebuked Trump's tweets.
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Following Trump's Sunday attacks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, defended the congresswomen and condemned him.
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His comments about the Democratic congresswomen show that he will only continue to rely on this argument.
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Hunt and Johnson also condemned tweets in which Trump suggested that four congresswomen of color, including Rep.
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Her endorsement comes after the other three members of "The Squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen — Democratic Reps.
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Democrats have criticized the attacks by Trump on Omar and the three other progressive congresswomen as racist.
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Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said last month that the country wouldn't bar the congresswomen.
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Ten GOP congresswomen lost their elections, meaning the party will have just 13 female members next year.
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Both congresswomen have sharply criticized what they perceive to be the Israeli government's human abuses against Palestinians.
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Trump also drew ire last month for his attacks on a group of four minority congresswomen: Reps.
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The attack followed Trump's tweets Sunday calling for progressive congresswomen to "go back" where they came from.
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Last month, he told Omar and other progressive congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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The big picture: Trump has spent the past month attacking Omar, Tlaib and 2 other progressive congresswomen.
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President Trump told four progressive congresswomen of color to "go back" to the countries they came from.
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Just weeks after insulting four Democratic congresswomen, all from minority backgrounds, the president has found another target.
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In July, he offered a forceful rebuke of Trump's racist tweets against four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Read more: Trump stepped up his attacks on a group of progressive congresswomen of color, groundlessly calling them 'pro-terrorist' and 'anti-USA'Trump has since doubled down on his criticism of the congresswomen — but he has focused on smearing them as socialists hostile to the US and Israel.
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On July 21st he questioned whether four Democratic congresswomen, all non-white, were "capable of loving our Country".
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Speaking to reporters, the president defended his racist tweets attacking progressive Congresswomen, claiming the tweets were not racist.
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" One in CNN read, "Here are the 4 congresswomen known as 'The Squad' targeted by Trump's racist tweets.
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He's capable of single-handedly steering the news cycle, as he did with his attacks on Democratic congresswomen.
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Current and former congresswomen and staffers have detailed their experiences dealing with harassment in the House and Senate.
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They said 'Advisors wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.
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Don't miss: Here's why congresswomen are being urged to wear white to Trump's State of the Union address
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That has not been the case with the racist comments Trump has directed at the four minority congresswomen.
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Trump's Sunday tweets suggested that four Democratic congresswomen should go back to the countries where they were from.
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Enter Pressley, who rocketed to political fame as a member of the "squad" of first-term Democratic congresswomen.
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The bipartisan initiative, started by four female congresswomen, now has 303 members from both sides of the aisle.
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Pelosi comes to defense of progressives Pelosi jumped to the defense of the congresswomen and condemned Trump's language.
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Lindsey Graham has thrown dynamite onto the feud between President Donald Trump and a group of Democratic congresswomen.
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Over the past week, House Democratic leadership has been openly feuding with four freshman congresswomen of color: Rep.
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Trump on Monday doubled down on his comments, saying that many people agree with him about the congresswomen.
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Progressive congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar have been friends since taking office.
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Omar and Ocasio-Cortez are two of the four Democratic congresswomen targeted by Trump's tweets and subsequent remarks.
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Nearly the same age, the congresswomen initially give off a bubbly vibe of moving into a college dorm.
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Trump's tweets were yet another chapter in the days-long international kerfuffle over whether two Democratic congresswomen, Reps.
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It's unclear if he was aware that of the 106 Congresswomen in the House, only 15 are Republicans.
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He then noted the president's recent criticisms of four Democratic congresswomen, who are all members of minority groups.
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These progressive congresswomen, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, represent hope for the future.
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Trump similarly tried to fend off accusations that his tweets targeting a group of four congresswomen were racist.
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Trump tweeted that it would show "great weakness" for Israel to let the U.S. congresswomen into the country.
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Booker's comments follow Trump's tweeted attacks on four minority Democratic congresswomen last week that implied the lawmakers -- Reps.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her two fellow progressive congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would endorse his candidacy.
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Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including the four freshman congresswomen who make up the Squad, were outraged.
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Context: The billboard appeared as the 4 freshman congresswomen have faced repeated attacks from Trump in recent weeks.
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You know what I would have done in response to Trump's racist attack on the four Democratic congresswomen?
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The all-white attire was especially stark in 2019, given the large number of first-time congresswomen present.
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Over the summer, he also tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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Mr. Trump's attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color in July received a lot of attention, and blowback.
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The caucus of Democratic congresswomen, many of whom ran on platforms opposing Mr. Trump's policies, stood and cheered.
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Days earlier, Trump had posted a series of racist tweets against four Democratic congresswomen of color, New York Rep.
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They discuss why Wintour personally avoids social media and the consequences of Donald Trump's tweets about non-white congresswomen.
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After a week of repeated attacks starting with him tweeting a racist phrase at the four freshman congresswomen — Reps.
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" He kept attacking four Democratic congresswomen of color, tweeting that the group was "a very Racist group of troublemakers.
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We believe him on that as well, as other governors and congressmen and congresswomen that have stated the same.
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Trump told Democratic congresswomen they should return to the countries they came from, appearing to be talking about Reps.
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Trump tweeted Sunday that Democratic congresswomen who had criticized his immigration policy should "go back" to their own countries.
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The congresswomen responded in a news conference, urging Americans not to be baited or distracted by Trump's taunts. 2.
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The two U.S. congresswomen were both endorsing the Democratic socialist candidate's bid for the White House, Sanders' campaign said.
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And in Oklahoma, A Amanda Douglas lost her chance to become one of the country's first Native American congresswomen.
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Giving these women veterans the recognition and equal treatment they deserve was a big win for Main Street's congresswomen.
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The four Congresswomen attacked by Trump held a press conference Monday to show they are done with trivial rebuttals.
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This includes members of "The Squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen that includes Ocasio-Cortez as well as Democratic Reps.
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In a series of tweets, Trump told the congresswomen to "go back" to their "broken and crime infested" countries.
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Trump groundlessly smeared four progressive congresswomen, who he has subjected to relentless attacks, as "pro-terrorist" in tweets Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump's advisers are concerned that his attack on four Democratic congresswomen Sunday may have backfired, Politico reported.
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He intensified his attacks on Wednesday, blasting four young congresswomen of color during a rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
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Mr. Trump also told a group of four minority Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to their countries this summer.
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At least some Democratic congresswomen see a double standard at play in the accusations that 2202 presidential contender Sen.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE announced Thursday that the country would bar entry to Muslim congresswomen Reps.
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The squad—which also includes congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley—represent everything that Trump is not.
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Both congresswomen appear in footage shared by By the People in which they can be seen signing the pledge.
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Obama's remarks come after a nearly weeklong feud between Trump four freshman congresswomen known as the "Squad": Democratic Reps.
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Earlier on Tuesday, the House vote to approve a resolution condemning Trump's tweets targeting the minority congresswomen as racist.
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Congressional Democrats expressed concern for the safety of the four congresswomen and have called for increased security for them.
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They're decked out in suffragette white, just as many congresswomen wore to the State of Union address last week.
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He joined Senator Tim Kaine, two congresswomen who flipped Republican seats in 2018 and a slew of state lawmakers.
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Sylvia Garcia, both expected to win in the general, are on their way to becoming Texas' first Latina congresswomen.
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His racist attacks against congresswomen of color gave House Democrats a new rationale for their impeachment push last month.
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Ilhan Omar — both members of the so-called "squad" of four progressive congresswomen — would be endorsing the Vermont senator.
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The following year, some congresswomen also wore white to President Trump's first speech to the joint House and Senate.
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Opposed was Congresswomen Patsy Takemoto Mink, who was the first nonwhite and the first Asian-American woman in Congress.
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He is working with colleagues, including Congresswomen Jackie Speier and Barbara Comstock, to make bipartisan reforms to the outdated process.
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" Ayanna Pressley posted an Instagram story of her taking a selfie with three other Congresswomen-elect with the caption "Squad.
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Eight GOP congresswomen are not returning — two retired, three ran for higher office and three lost their re-election bids.
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Her fellow congresswomen mourned her on social media, many of them calling her a trailblazer and a force of nature.
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Republican members of Congress said nothing when President Trump told minority congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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The big picture: Of the 4 progressive congresswomen who spoke out, only Omar is an immigrant to the United States.
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President Trump's racist tweets over the weekend attacking Democratic congresswomen of color have drawn some pushback from his Republican colleagues.
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The big picture: Three of the four congresswomen Trump targeted are American-born, with Omar the only naturalized U.S. citizen.
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Of note: Wray largely avoided questions about the Mueller report and President Trump's recent racist attacks on 4 Democratic congresswomen.
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On Sunday, she clapped back again on Twitter, saying she and her fellow congresswomen "fight to guarantee basic human rights."
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Trump was armed with opposition research on the congresswomen at events during the week the Post described in the article.
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The quartet of progressive Democratic congresswomen, known on Capitol Hill as "the Squad," have forcefully pushed back against the President.
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On Sunday, the President used racist language to attack progressive Democratic congresswomen, falsely implying they weren't natural-born American citizens.
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Dozens of Democratic congresswomen, dressed in white as a symbol of women's rights, remained seated, as some shook their heads.
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" None of the congresswomen have uttered the phrase "evil Jews"; Omar tweeted in 2012 that Israel had committed "evil doings.
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In the sweltering, D.C. heat, congresswomen on both sides of the aisle united to exercise their right to bare arms.
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A month ago, before his tweets against the four progressive congresswomen, his approval rating among voters was the same 43%.
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It started with Trump's continuing attacks on the Democratic Congresswomen he targeted with a series of racist tweets last weekend.
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Just this April, Trump posted an edited video to Twitter trying to link one of America's first Muslim congresswomen, Rep.
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President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on criticism of Democratic congresswomen he subjected to attacks widely decried as racist.
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In recent days, President Donald Trump has kept up a steady stream of attacks on four progressive congresswomen of color.
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Rather, new congresswomen could push for greater representation on key committees to challenge the male dominance of foreign policy discussions.
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There's counterpressure, too; a band of congresswomen crash the Senate dining room to lobby and shame their complacent male colleagues.
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Earlier this week, the House voted to pass a resolution that condemned Trump's tweets targeting the minority congresswomen as racist.
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Omar's caption is a dig at Trump, who tweeted in July that Omar and three other congresswomen of color — Reps.
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Democratic lawmakers expressed concern for the safety of the four congresswomen and have called for increased security for the lawmakers.
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Trump told the congresswomen to "go back" to their countries earlier this year, despite both of them being U.S. citizens.
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His tweets follow attacks on the minority congresswomen that have been condemned as racist by Democrats and a few Republicans.
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In July, he said the lawmaker and other progressive congresswomen of color should "go back" to where they came from.
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For the first time in our nation's history, two Muslim Congresswomen were elected to serve in the House of Representatives.
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Trump's aide was talking to reporters Tuesday in D.C. about the President's insistence that his tweets demanding Congresswomen, like Rep.
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Amid the frustrations, some of the new congresswomen felt rewarded by gaining a hearing for causes and constituents rarely heard.
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They were joined by liberal Congresswomen, including Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Barbara Lee of California.
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After a midterm election which brought a record number of women to Congress, some Congresswomen are being treated like celebrities.
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All three congresswomen named to Warren's campaign leadership on Friday were elected to the House last year on progressive platforms.
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NATIONAL An article on Friday about the departures of many prominent Republican congresswomen misidentified the organization Lea Márquez-Peterson runs.
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That's when members of Congress, led by the so-called "Squad" of progressive freshman Congresswomen, began backing Tlaib's resolution movement.
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The president connected the clash to his earlier call for four minority congresswomen to "go back" to their home countries.
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When Democrats defend attacks on the two Congresswomen, Trump uses those defenses as alleged proof that Democrats are anti-Israel.
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" Congresswomen who criticized him should apologize for the "foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.
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Almost universally, congresswomen believe that the influence of women in Congress would be greater if there were more of them.
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This fall, two states elected the nation's first Native American congresswomen, and another elected its first Native American lieutenant governor.
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The four congresswomen, along with dozens of other Democrats, voted against the bill, but it still passed due to Republican support.
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It also might have been a message of solidarity with GOP congresswomen, who were wearing red, white, and blue that night.
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday night condemning President Donald Trump's racist tweets about four first-term congresswomen.
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In an open-seat race in Arizona between two current congresswomen, Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat, is clinging to a narrow lead.
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And while three influential progressive congresswomen are throwing their support behind Sanders, it appears that Pressley's endorsement remains up for grabs.
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Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) declined to directly respond when asked whether President Trump's tweets attacking four congresswomen of color were racist.
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President Trump dug in further Monday as he defended his tweets attacking freshman congresswomen of color, denying that they were racist.
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" A headline in USA Today read, "'The Squad': These are the four congresswomen Trump told to 'go back' to other countries.
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Earlier this month, he told progressive congresswomen who have been critical of his administration to "go back" where they came from.
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The inauguration last month of America's first two Muslim congresswomen may also help normalise Muslim participation at all levels of society.
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Trump's tweets urging four congresswomen to "go back" where they came from weren't racist because what does "racist" even mean anymore?
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Perhaps these instances are examples of the silencing of congresswomen of color that political scientist Mary Hawkesworth identified in the 1990s.
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Meghan McCain slams the "cowardice" of the GOP for not speaking out against Trump's tweets on the Democratic congresswomen, including Sen.
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Trump's tweets about Cummings and Baltimore were not identical to his tweets about four Democratic congresswomen of color two weeks prior.
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Take his Twitter attacks on both the Squad -- four female Democratic congresswomen of color -- and Cummings over the past two weeks.
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Washington (CNN)Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday he doesn't believe President Donald Trump's tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen are racist.
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In February 2017, Democratic congresswomen dressed in white and made a visual statement of solidarity at Trump's joint address to Congress.
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The chants, which were eventually disavowed by the President, echoed similar language he used in his recent attacks on the congresswomen.
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Earlier this month, Trump argued that four first-term congresswomen of color, all US citizens, should "go back" to other countries.
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Of the four congresswomen, only Omar, a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the US.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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Trump told the four congresswomen of color that they should "go back and help fix" their "broken and crime infested" countries.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a group of four congresswomen in a series of statements published to Twitter on Sunday.
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President Donald Trump acted alone and impulsively in issuing racist tweets about four progressive freshman congresswomen, according to The Washington Post.
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Still, Swers says she continues to see bipartisan Congresswomen coming together to improve women's health around issues that aren't as polarizing.
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None of the congresswomen has addressed King's analysis, but Ocasio-Cortez shared criticism of the debate on Twitter — she retweeted Gov.
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A Maureen Dowd New York Times column on Sunday quoted the speaker sniping at a quartet of progressive first-term congresswomen.
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The rally followed several days of attacks by Trump on both Omar in particular and three other progressive minority congresswomen, Reps.
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The president and states what two months ago told four brown skinned congresswomen to go back to where they came from.
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As one, they embraced the congresswomen, a bundle of hard-to-defend tweets themselves, in the necessary cause of condemning Trump.
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The Greenville rally took place in the midst of Trump's controversial attacks against Omar and three other freshman congresswomen, including Rep.
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It also follows days of attacks by the president on the group of four congresswomen, which includes Ocasio-Cortez and Reps.
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" Trump's most recent attacks come in the wake of a fusillade against the four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as "the squad.
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"We will not allow the congresswomen to enter the country," Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovel said, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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And much relies on how the Sanders campaign uses the congresswomen as surrogates throughout the course of the next several months.
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Several first-term congresswomen who flipped seats have endorsed Biden in recent days, including Elissa Slotkin and Haley Stevens in Michigan.
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Muslim Advocates tweeted that there are already multiple, credible assassination threats and attempts on the congresswomen targeted in the ad: Reps.
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Israel A day after Israel barred two Democratic US congresswomen from entering the country, one of them has been granted entry.
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In July 513, he was one of four Republicans to formally condemn the president's comments about four progressive congresswomen as racist.
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The three congresswomen trumpeted legislation on Venezuela that they have championed, including an unsuccessful attempt to grant Venezuelans protection from deportation.
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Yet, from the outset, Mr. Trump has pounced on the religion and background of the two congresswomen to fan racial divisions.
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The attendees, from high schools and colleges across Ohio, want to be City Council members, county commissioners, state senators and congresswomen.
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Elizabeth Warren for president, breaking ranks with other members of "the Squad," a group of four progressive first-term Democratic congresswomen.
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Last February, Democratic congresswomen chose to wear white, the historical color of choice for suffragettes, to Trump's Joint Address to Congress.
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But, across party lines, congresswomen do believe they are more likely than men to be problem-solvers rather than problem-makers.
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Yet, from the outset, Mr. Trump has pounced on the religion and background of the two congresswomen to fan racial divisions.
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Days after Mr. Trump's first tweets about the congresswomen, the House passed a resolution, largely along party lines, condemning his remarks.
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Days after Mr. Trump's first tweets about the congresswomen, the House passed a resolution, largely along party lines, condemning his remarks.
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It was one of many striking visuals of the night, and not just because the congresswomen were dressed in suffragist white.
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They also picked a Democrat who's almost certain to serve — alongside Michigan's Rashida Tlaib — as one of the first Muslim congresswomen.
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USA-TRUMP-DEMOCRATS/ Trump tells Democratic congresswomen to 'go back' to 'fix' countries they came from WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," a comment that was condemned by Democrats as racist.
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M.) and Sharice DavidsSharice DavidsHaaland, Davids included in 'Jeopardy' clue for historic first as Native American congresswomen The Hill's Morning Report - Vulnerable Dems are backing Trump impeachment Vulnerable Democrats signal support for impeachment articles this week MORE (D-Kan.) were featured in a "Jeopardy" clue Wednesday night for making history as the first Native American congresswomen.
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At the December policy event in Washington, black congresswomen called for a policy agenda that would center around solutions to these problems.
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Remove them for cause MORE's (D-Calif.) office by the ERA Coalition and the Feminist Majority to distribute to the other congresswomen.
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Still, it's not great for American democracy when former secretaries of state are running around accusing congresswomen of working for the Russians.
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Katie Porter wore a Batwoman costume to votes and I think that Congressmen and Congresswomen should learn to take themselves less seriously.
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Trump's attacks on Omar at the rally weren't even the first he made on one of America's first Muslim congresswomen Wednesday evening.
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World leaders such as former British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also condemned Trump's attacks on the congresswomen.
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The facts remain the same, that we have 4 Radical Left Congresswomen who have said very bad things about Israel & our Country!
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During a leadership debate, Johnson did criticize Trump for his comments about four congresswomen but declined to describe the remarks as racist.
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Another moment that garnered international and social media attention was the cheering of Democratic congresswomen after Trump's comments about female job creation.
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There are logical reasons why freshmen congresswomen, representing an insurgent wing of the party, have been getting an outsized amount of attention.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) -- who, not coincidentally, are Congresswomen of color.
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The first-term congresswomen, known as "the squad," have been highly critical of Trump and have also challenged their own Democratic leadership.
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Graham told Trump he should "aim higher" than attacking congresswomen, but then echoed Trump's tweets calling the lawmakers anti-Semitic and unpatriotic.
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During a leadership debate, Johnson did criticise Trump for his comments about four congresswomen but declined to describe the remarks as racist.
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Omar says all 4 Congresswomen plan to introduce a resolution to call out and condemn such messages coming from the Trump administration.
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In June, the president was criticized for his racist tweets against Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley.
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Two of Pressley's fellow "Squad" members, Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also tweeted in support of her resolution Thursday morning.
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The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday afternoon on a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four Democratic congresswomen.
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Far from backing away from the comments, he and his party are now casting the minority Democratic congresswomen as the real racists.
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German leader Angela Merkel said she "without question" distanced herself from US President Donald Trump's racist comments about a group of congresswomen.
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Tlaib, and other newly sworn-in progressive congresswomen, are learning to fight against that system, even as they are part of it.
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Trump continued to push the narrative around the freshman congresswomen, dubbed "the squad," during the rally in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday night.
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The four congresswomen, who refer to themselves as "the squad," denounced Trump's comments as a "distraction" during their press conference later Monday.
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Trump unleashed a tidal wave on Sunday when he tweeted that four progressive freshman congresswomen of color who have criticized him — Reps.
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Lawmakers condemned Trump's comments as racist earlier this month after he told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries.
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The four congresswomen targeted by Trump, and indeed their entire cohort of 2018 elected officials, embody that inclusive American identity and perspective.
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All 13 Republican congresswomen are supporting Ms. Perry, and the race is seen as an early gauge of the party's diversification strategy.
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When Anita Hill accused now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, several congresswomen risked censure by standing up for her.
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They are members of the group of progressive congresswomen of color nicknamed The Squad, which Trump targeted with racist attacks last summer.
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Tlaib to visit," adding that the two Democratic congresswomen, who have been vocal critics of Trump, "hate Israel and all Jewish people.
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And because the two congresswomen represent the activist base of the party, he said, they could galvanize progressive activists around the country.
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Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) is backing reelection bids for eight freshman congresswomen as part of the organization's first round of 2020 endorsements.
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While the congresswomen are all outspoken critics of Trump and his administration, Maher questioned the lawmakers' approval ratings in the general electorate.
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With his attack on the congresswomen — three of whom were born, as was he, in these United States — he had specific goals.
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Two other Democratic New York City congresswomen who faced primary opponents in 2018, Representatives Yvette Clarke and Carolyn Maloney, expect challenges again.
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Earlier this year, when Trump said 4 congresswomen of color should "go back" to their countries, Scott condemned the comments as racist.
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However, despite the middling numbers of congresswomen overall, the election won women of color a record number of 38 seats in Congress.
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Trump has spent a large part of the summer engaged in attacks on four minority congresswomen and an African-American lawmaker from Baltimore.
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Trump has leveled explicitly racist attacks at congresswomen and immigrants alike, and Twitter has declined to suspend or ban him from the platform.
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On January 3, as a historic number of women were sworn into Congress, the vision of what congresswomen can look like drastically shifted.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — one of the four congresswomen recently targeted in a racist rant by President Trump — and suggesting she should be shot.
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Khan, a longtime and vocal critic of Trump, joined 30 British politicians to publicly support the four American Congresswomen attacked in Trump's tweets.
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The two have recently unified after President Donald Trump told four congresswomen, including Ocasio-Cortez, to "go back" to where they came from.
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It will be the first rally since Trump ignited a firestorm in racist tweets over the weekend aimed at four progressive Democratic congresswomen.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used racist language on Sunday to attack progressive Democratic congresswomen, falsely implying they weren't natural-born American citizens.
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But Amanda Douglas lost the state's 22020st District — and, with it, the chance to become one of the country's first Native American congresswomen.
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He urged that "Progressive Democrat Congresswomen," the best-known of whom happen to be women of color, should go back to their countries.
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But Amanda Douglas lost the state's 1st District — and, with it, the chance to become one of the country's first Native American congresswomen.
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Unlike 3 of the "Democrat Congresswomen" Trump attacked today, I was actually born outside the US. Does he think I should go back?
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Take, for example, the meme he shared that lambasted dozens of congresswomen who were wearing white ahead of the State of the Union.
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" Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, said: "President Trump was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from.
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" Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, said, "President Trump was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from.
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Two congresswomen from Silicon Valley introduced a new online privacy bill Tuesday that proposes creating a federal enforcement agency to protect privacy rights.
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President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning asking the "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" to "go back" to their "corrupt" and "broken and crime infested" countries.
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Read more: Trump's racist attack on progressive congresswomen is reportedly part of a plot to smear Democrats as extremists in the 2020 election
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His latest remarks came just days after he urged Democrats to denounce the president's attacks against a group of minority congresswomen as racist.
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Trump on Sunday suggested those lawmakers, all women of color, should "go back" to other countries, despite all four congresswomen being U.S. citizens.
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"Last night at a campaign rally, the president once again used inflammatory rhetoric about the four congresswomen," Thompson wrote in urging the meeting.
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The famously foul-mouthed President on Sunday launched yet another Twitter tirade, saying that the four congresswomen, known as The Squad -- US Reps.
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"Also, we're joined tonight by some amazing members of Congress in our audience," Trump continued, before calling the congresswomen up to the stage.
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FYI: New Mexico Democrat Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo member, is also likely to become one of the country's first Native American congresswomen.
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When Representative Ilhan Omar, one of only two Muslim congresswomen, dares to question this, she is pilloried and falsely accused of anti-Semitism.
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In America President Donald Trump told four progressive congresswomen to "go back...to the broken and crime-infested places from which they came".
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Then he grabs a group photo of Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib -- and breaks into song.
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One of the most common refrains from the 83 congresswomen we interviewed was that they wanted to see more women join their ranks.
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The four congresswomen — the Squad, as they've come to be known — make the Democratic Party look much more progressive than it actually is.
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In August, Israel's decision to block the entry of congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib amid pressure from Donald Trump drew widespread criticism.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland will travel with a group of newly-elected congresswomen to Texas and New Mexico on Saturday.
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A number of Trump's tweets, like his July attack on Democratic congresswomen of color, would seem to violate Twitter's ban on hate speech.
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Top GOP targets Backing an impeachment inquiry is risky political business for these congresswomen -- some of the biggest political targets in the House.
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Elissa SlotkinElissa SlotkinCNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders Democrats take Trump impeachment case to voters Sunday shows lineup: Trump impeachment dominates the talk circuit MORE (Mich.), Abigail SpanbergerAbigail Davis SpanbergerCNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders Centrist Democrats urge caution over impeachment inquiry Pelosi announces launch of formal impeachment inquiry into Trump MORE (Va.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Mikie SherrillRebecca (Mikie) Michelle SherrillCNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders GOP ratchets up 2020 attacks as impeachment storm grows Trump impeachment calls snowball, putting pressure on Pelosi MORE (N.
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Washington (CNN)In a series of racist tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump told a group of four Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are people of color, to "go back" to their supposed home countries, though three of them were born in the US. On Monday, he aggressively defended the tweets -- and falsely accused one of the congresswomen, Minnesota Rep.
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In mid-July, Trump tweeted that four progressive congresswomen of color should "go back and fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came," despite three of the four congresswomen being born in the US. And on July 27, Trump fired off a series of tweets slamming the city of Baltimore and one of its congress members, Rep.
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Trump did not explicitly name any of the congresswomen, but as CNN notes, a group of Democratic women of color, including New York Rep.
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President Donald Trump railed against progressive congresswomen in a series of racist tweets Sunday, telling the American citizens to go back to their countries.
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"His plan to 'Make America Great Again' has always been about making America white again," she said in tweets in support of the congresswomen.
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Some Democrats renewed their call to boycott Israel after two American congresswomen were barred from entering the country because they support sanctions against Israel.
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Driving the news: The total jumped after Trump hurled racist attacks against a group of congresswomen of color who had criticized his immigration policy.
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Trump "views his attacks on the four congresswomen of color as an unbridled political success," CNN's Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins reported on Wednesday.
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The resolution's sponsor, Democratic Representative Al Green, was seeking to capitalize on growing criticism of Trump after the president's recent attacks on minority congresswomen.
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President Donald Trump's approval rating with Republicans rose in a poll taken after his racist tweets on Sunday attacking four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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President Donald Trump posted a series of racist tweets telling four progressive congresswomen of color to "go back" to their "countries" on Sunday morning.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned US President Donald Trump's racist comments about freshmen congresswomen, saying his stance "thwarts America's strength" as a diverse country.
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Democratic congresswomen are backing their own proposal, and that group gathered on Wednesday to talk about the need for paid time off for everyone.
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In July, Amash called Trump's comments "racist and disgusting" after the president told four minority Democratic congresswomen to "go back" where they came from.
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Texas sent the state's first two Latina members to Congress, and two black congresswomen from New England also made history by coming to Washington.
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The congresswomen have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel and US-Israel policy and Omar has made comments widely denounced as anti-Semitic.
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Years from now, Trump's 2019 address will be remembered for the Democratic Congresswomen who wore white and the moment they briefly abandoned their fight.
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Trump tore into each of the congresswomen during his North Carolina rally and has repeatedly accused them of hating the country in recent days.
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Some Republicans echoed that sentiment, with a few suggesting the congresswomen should have joined in a larger delegation that visited Israel earlier this month.
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The rally crowd came up with a new chant, with shades of Hillary Clinton, aimed at his favorite target among the four congresswomen, Rep.
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Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim women elected to Congress, are scheduled to visit Israel with a congressional delegation this weekend.
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In the U.S. House, the number of GOP congresswomen is at a 2202-year low, having declined from 2628 to 28500 following the midterms.
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The tweets also followed recent posts by the president in which he said that four minority congresswomen should "go back" where they came from.
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Congresswomen Pia Cayetano, one of the authors of the new bill, said the Church's influence is the main reason why divorce still isn't legal.
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The decision to bar the congresswomen, however, amounts to a remarkable step by the Israeli government to punish political opponents of the US President.
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Presidential endorsements from the congresswomen, both members of the group of first-term Democratic women of color known as "the squad," were highly coveted.
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The congresswomen vowed not to be baited into a sprint to the bottom with a president they condemned as racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and criminal.
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Those progressive congresswomen are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts.
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Those progressive congresswomen are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts.
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Several commentators lambasted the decision to deny entry to the congresswomen, which the Israeli government attributed to the two freshmen lawmakers' support for BDS.
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Trump in July urged the congresswomen, who are all women of color and US citizens, to "go back" to where they had come from.
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"The red line for me was the full-blown racism against the four congresswomen," he said referring to Trump's attacks on Democratic minority Reps.
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Scaramucci said that Trump telling the congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from was not only racist but also out of line.
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On the runway Democratic congresswomen created a sea of the color, ensuring that neither President Trump nor the viewing public could overlook their message.
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He then went on to use a series of dog whistles about Omar, who in January became one of the country's first Muslim congresswomen.
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If you thought the freshman congresswomen in the House Oversight Committee were going to fumble this year's first major testimony, you were absolutely wrong. Reps.
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Congresswomen Anna G. Eshoo and Zoe Logfren have proposed establishing a "Digital Privacy Agency" to "enforce privacy protections and investigate abuses" within the online sphere.
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President Donald Trump puts away talking points about four first-term Democratic congresswomen while answering questions from the media at the White House, July 218.
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Why it matters: The symbolic endorsement from the country's largest and oldest civil rights group follows Trump's recent racist attack on 4 congresswomen of color.
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Representatives Omar and Ocasio-Cortez are both part of an informal group known as "The Squad," which also includes congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
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The belief among most aides is the four Democratic congresswomen Trump attacked earlier were a better target because of their far left-leaning political positions.
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If telling Democratic congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" isn't racist, what is?
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His tweets, telling four Democratic Congresswomen to in essence to go back home, even though for them home is the United States, were unambiguously racist.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, two of the four Democratic congresswomen who Trump previously attacked and members of the House Oversight Committee, defended Cummings.
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Over the last year and a half, the congresswomen have been working closely with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to put together the legislative package.
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But they're more deeply concerned about issues that have a disproportionate impact on women and families — and they want Main Street's congresswomen to address them.
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While Trump's attacks on the congresswomen were widely condemned by Democrats as racist, the vast majority of elected Republicans have yet criticized the president's messages.
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In new attacks on the congresswomen, Trump has focused on smearing them as anti-US socialists in a bid to return to familiar campaign themes.
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The four congresswomen were locked in a dispute last week with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Trump's attack has united the Democratic Party behind them.
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My intense disagreement with the socialist policies and anti-semitic language of these four congresswomen has absolutely nothing to do with their race or religion.
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As President Donald Trump continues to target a group of Democratic congresswomen in a series of incendiary attacks, arguments are raging about the president's motivation.
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She was wearing all white, as were a large group of other female congresswomen, a nod to the suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two other members of the so-called "Squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen, will also endorse Sanders, CNN reported Tuesday night.
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If Democrats are smart, congresswomen like New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan's Rashida Tlaib, and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar will represent the future of party leadership.
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An Israeli official just confirmed that U.S. Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar will be barred from entering the country ahead of a planned trip.
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The meeting happens as Trump tries to back away from racist jabs he made at four Democratic congresswomen of color who've criticized US border policies.
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Waters made waves as a new congresswomen when she burst uninvited into a 1992 meeting held by President George H.W. Bush following the LA riots.
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It sounds like these congresswomen believe the attack was meant for them too, because all of them directly responded to Trump with some choice words.
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The billboard, located in the town of Murphy, over 200 miles from Charlotte, didn't directly call on customers to attack the four progressive congresswomen, Reps.
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But the first sign that things were changing came on July 16, when Scaramucci criticized Trump for making racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Her petition won the support of a slate of sitting congresswomen as well as Hillary Clinton, who penned a letter of support for Grechen Shirley.
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These two congresswomen weren't the only one who took action to protest Trump's speech, either — others opted to skip the whole thing altogether, including Reps.
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For many, the pain of past encounters throbbed again after President Trump attacked four Democratic congresswomen of color in a series of tweets this week.
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NATIONAL An article on Thursday about President Trump's rally in Greenville, N.C., misstated the day that Mr. Trump road-tested his attacks on four congresswomen.
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Sanders' strength has further been accentuated as three members of the influential progressive group of congresswomen "'The Squad" have endorsed him for the 2020 ticket.
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The 2018 midterms — dubbed another "Year of the Woman" for Democrats — resulted in 36 new congresswomen as part of the most diverse freshman class ever.
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The handful of congresswomen who have never fully embraced Mr. Trump and Trumpism are the party's best hope for a renewed appeal to women voters.
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In the House, for example, two Silicon Valley congresswomen recently introduced a bill that goes beyond some of the measures in California's new privacy legislation.
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But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez would be the first to tell you that she hails from a long line of defiant, outspoken congresswomen from New York.
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Using a well-worn racist attack last month, he told four progressive congresswomen to "go back" to their countries of origin, though all four are Americans.
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"The example you have set promoting sustainability and evidence-based science is compromised by your implicit support of the session organized at LibertyCon," the congresswomen wrote.
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In July, Trump lashed out in Twitter posts against four minority Democratic first-term congresswomen and U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a black longtime civil rights activist.
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When Trump used racist language to attack four progressive Democratic congresswomen in July, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN the tweets did not break the company's rules.
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The House voted 240-187 to condemn President Trump's racist tweets against 4 Democratic congresswomen of color on Tuesday, after an embattled argument on parliamentary procedure.
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Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / APPresident Trump's attack this Sunday on four first-term congresswomen was widely viewed as one of the most racist he's ever produced.
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The resolution was introduced after Trump's racist tweets aimed at four Democratic congresswomen of color injected drama and tumult into an already-divided Washington this week.
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Several Democrats -- from across the ideological spectrum -- are growing tired of the repeated headlines involving four progressive congresswomen as the caucus tries to push its agenda.
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Trump tweeted racist language attacking the progressive Democratic congresswomen on Sunday, in which he told the group of lawmakers to "go back" to their home countries.
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Corporate America in general has been largely silent about Trump's tweets Sunday, in which he told the Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to their own countries.
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In her CBS interview, the freshman Democrat walked back her suggestion that Pelosi's recent criticisms of the four congresswomen known as "the Squad" were racially motivated.
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A different survey this week from YouGov actually polled voters on their response to Trump telling the congresswomen to go back to where they came from.
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Donald Trump's outrageous attacks on Democratic congresswomen of color have pulled the mainstream media back into an awkward dance around how to describe a racist president.
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"Israel's denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great state of Israel," Pelosi said.
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He spoke about his recent tweets attacking the freshman congresswomen Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
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President Donald Trump has renewed attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color he said should "go back and help fix" their "broken and crime infested" countries.
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President Donald Trump's suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color "go back" to countries "from which they came" has excited some in his political base.
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Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two other members of the so-called "Squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen, will also endorse Sanders, CNN reported Tuesday night. Rep.
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But sexual jokes were a constant in Farenthold's office, she said, as well as comments about women's appearances, including which congresswomen Farenthold found to be unattractive.
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Tlaib, who was born in the U.S., was one of the four freshman congresswomen of color President Trump told to "go back" where they came from.
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In July, Trump tweeted asking a group of "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," which included Omar, to "go back" to their "corrupt" and "broken and crime-infested" countries.
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Later that night at a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump threw fuel on the fire by invoking each of the four progressive congresswomen by name.
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It's the second major housing plan to be introduced in recent days by a progressive member of the so-called "squad" of freshman congresswomen of color.
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Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, is the only one of the four congresswomen who was born in a different country.
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READ: "He is a lawless president": Rashida Tlaib isn't giving up on impeachment President Donald Trump, however, has encouraged Israel to bar the congresswomen from entering.
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" Ilhan Omar and Jews "The First Lady thinks that it's horrible what they've said about Israel and horrible what they've said about our country -- these congresswomen.
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Three Congresswomen — Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), and Robin Kelly (D-IL) — spearheaded the caucus after being petitioned by the #SheWoke Committee.
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But since then he has launched a series of racist attacks against four Democratic congresswomen and launched inflammatory insults against the majority-black city of Baltimore.
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"Israel's denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great State of Israel," Pelosi said.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to enter the country and is now barring the congresswomen over their support for the BDS movement.
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He has been known to occasionally criticize President Trump, most recently over the president's racist tweets against 4 Democratic congresswomen of color, per the Washington Post.
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The comment was part of the President's response to two Democratic congresswomen being barred for entering Israel over their support for a boycott against the country.
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I was honored to receive letters of support from airmen and military members, congressmen and congresswomen, senior US and allied officers, and individuals around the world.
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That's the question whenever Donald Trump drops a bomb like his suggestion that four congresswomen of color "go back" to the countries from which they came.
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If I were a gambler, I sure would bet that these 42 new congresswomen have experience with issues that few congressmen have ever had to face.
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I sometimes wished the three of us could go out for dinner, so I could hear the two congresswomen talk through their perspectives, with adequate time.
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Ayanna Pressley and 3 other congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries earlier this month, which his rally-going supporters echoed in chants last week.
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The contrast could be seen clearly in two events on Friday, as Biden campaigned in the rural eastern Iowa town of Fort Madison and three congresswomen — Reps.
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During Trump's third State of the Union address, Pelosi stood in solidarity with her fellow congresswomen by wearing white to pay homage to the women's suffrage movement.
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"They consistently test well in both focus groups and polling," said Tom Schultz, vice president of campaigns for the Club for Growth, referring to the four congresswomen.
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Four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley — have made recent headlines for clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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President Trump tweeted a nativist attack on Democratic congresswomen Sunday, arguing that legislators should "go back" and fix their own countries before attempting to shape American government.
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Many of the women — like Congresswomen-elect Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sharice Davids, and Abby Finkenauer — have been each other's biggest cheerleaders during the transition process.
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" Tlaib -- one of the four minority congresswomen previously attacked by Trump -- added that the President "doesn't have a policy agenda, and that's what he falls down on.
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On Tuesday, the House voted to condemn the racist language the President used in his attacks, and Pelosi came to the defense of the congresswomen of color.
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John Lewis delivered an emotional speech condemning President Donald Trump's racist tweets on Tuesday, slamming the President for using racist language against four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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On Monday, Trump stood by his racist attacks on the quartet of Democratic congresswomen, insisting they leave the United States if they continue complaining about his policies.
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Trump's making a bet that he can link the Democratic nominee to this "squad" -- the aforementioned group of congresswomen of color that he has lobbed attacks at.
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Today, the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, led by a group of Black congresswomen, is trying to do just that: take care of its own.
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Congresswomen-elect Katie Hill, Jennifer Wexton, Lori Trahan and Deb Haaland ran different races from different states, but their paths toward supporting Pelosi follow a similar pattern.
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President Donald Trump is celebrating Nancy Pelosi being forced to defend the progressive congresswomen with whom she had been previously been feuding from his racist Twitter attacks.
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On Thursday, Trump said he "was not happy with" the episode, despite prompting the sentiment by telling the congresswomen to "go back" to their "crime infested" countries.
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The other three were born in the U.S. Those congresswomen, known as "The Squad," have since become routine punching bags for Trump, both online and at rallies.
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He pointed out that the president's racist tweets about freshman congresswomen from two weeks ago also corresponded with on-air "Fox & Friends" discussion about the same issue.
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Three out of four of the congresswomen were born in the US, and the rhetoric the president utilized was immediately deemed racist, including by major news organizations.
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Their talk came amid a chaotic week in which Trump told a group of minority congresswomen to "go back" to the "crime infested places" they came from.
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Since July 4, Trump has launched racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen and stirred partisan divides on a visit to mass-shooting victims in El Paso, Texas.
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A gun shop's billboard in North Carolina labeling 4 progressive minority congresswomen "4 horsemen" and "idiots" is being taken down following backlash over the ad, CNN reports.
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Freshman Democratic congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both announced on Tuesday that they won't attend President Donald Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union address.
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Freshman Democratic congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both announced on Tuesday that they won't attend President Donald Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union address.
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If elected, Davids and New Mexico congressional candidate Deb Haaland could become the first Native American congresswomen in history, and Davids would become Kansas' first LGBTQ congressperson.
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President Donald Trump also traded barbs with Omar and other freshman congresswomen of color on Twitter, telling them to "go back" to "broken and crime infested" countries.
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One of the most common refrains among congresswomen we interviewed was their belief that women are more likely than men to focus on achievement over ego. Rep.
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In 22016, she and five other congresswomen, all but one of them black, took a trip partly sponsored by J Street to Israel and the West Bank.
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The story was most likely prompted by Trump's tweets last Sunday in which he suggested that a group of four Democratic congresswomen of color should "go back" to their "corrupt" and "broken and crime infested" countries — even though all are US citizens and three were born in the US.He said the congresswomen were "loudly" and "viciously telling the people of the United States" how its government should be run.
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The incoming freshman class of 27 lawmakers boasts 23 people of color and 42 women, including the first two Muslim-American and first two Native American congresswomen ever.
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The Texas congressman unsuccessfully brought an impeachment resolution to the House floor in July after Trump told a group of minority congresswomen to "go back" to their countries.
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Samirah, the member of Virginia's House of Delegates who protested Trump on Tuesday, told CNN he decided to protest due to Trump's attacks on those Democratic congresswomen -- Reps.
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Three progressive congresswomen plan to introduce legislation later this week that would ban biometrics and facial recognition from public housing, a source familiar with the legislation told Motherboard.
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Congresswomen Yvette Clarke of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan are planning to introduce the "No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act" this week.
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Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania "President Trump was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from," Toomey said in a statement.
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Trump has repeatedly denigrated the four minority congresswomen, often referred to as "The Squad," as he works to peg them as the new face of the Democratic Party.
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This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country.
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Update: The below was published in advance of Tuesday's SOTU address, where Nancy Pelosi, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and over 100 other congresswomen, dressed in all-white, made news.
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The president's attacks on the four congresswomen - known on Capitol Hill as "the squad" - have been condemned by Democrats as racist, while many Republicans have shrugged them off.
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President Donald Trump is celebrating Nancy Pelosi being forced to defend the four progressive congresswomen with whom she had been previously been feuding from his racist Twitter attacks.
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But it was interesting to watch Ocasio-Cortez and her gang of three other happy congresswomen hell bent on breaking rules and confronting the powerful Senate Majority Leader.
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The four congresswomen, along with several other high-ranking Democrats and a handful of Republican lawmakers, condemned Trump's comments on Sunday and highlighted the nation's strength in diversity.
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Politico has reported that President Donald Trump is angry because he thinks Republicans have not been forthright enough in defending his incendiary tweets targeting four congresswomen of color.
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The Times says he believes he is succeeding in tying centrist Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi to the four progressive congresswomen he has smeared as anti-American extremists.
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Trump ignited controversy last weekend when he tweeted that the Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from if they do not like the United States.
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A billboard advertising a gunshop in western North Carolina that targeted four Democratic congresswomen as "idiots" and "the 4 horsemen" is being removed after facing backlash, CNN reports.
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Each of the congresswomen was born in the U.S. with the exception of Omar, who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a refugee.
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While the House chamber filled with Democratic Congresswomen in white had previously rejected Trump's overtures, they unexpectedly made a u-turn by standing and cheering the president's comment.
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The congresswomen, who had planned a trip to Israel for later this month, have supported Palestinian rights and backed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
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In "Congressional Ball" she spends an evening sucking up to congressmen and congresswomen, who all make dopey demands in exchange for their support in the tiebreaking presidential vote.
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" On Sunday, Trump tweeted that a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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In mid-July, he infamously invited four freshman democratic congresswomen (three of whom were born in America) to go back to the 'crime infested places' they came from.
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Omar is also a part of "the Squad," which includes four progressive congresswomen who have recently clashed with the speaker on issues such as border funding and impeachment.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Merkel on Friday distanced herself from U.S. President Donald Trump's comment that four minority Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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Carla Nelson, running for an open House seat in southern Minnesota, has the endorsement of four national conservative women's groups, nine incumbent congresswomen and the National Rifle Association.
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On Friday, during Congressional Black Caucus week, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley busted a move to the song and shared footage of their delightful dancing on Twitter.
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According to Israeli officials, Azar stressed that "the preferred goal is that the congresswomen won't come to Israel at all" — and cancel the visit for their own reasons.
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"The President's statements about the congresswomen are a sign of ignorance and disrespect, and beneath the dignity of the Office of the President," Pelosi said in a statement.
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Trump in recent months has sought to divide Jewish voters by attacking a small band of minority Democratic congresswomen who've been fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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Last year, the US House of Representatives voted to condemn the President's comments when he told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from.
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The House bill was co-sponsored by several other members, including Representatives Sharice Davids of Kansas and Deb Haaland of New Mexico, the first two Native American congresswomen.
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She ran into Spanberger, who introduced her to a woman who designed scarves popular among the first-year congresswomen, as they feature sketches of all of their faces.
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Mr. Hurd was also one of only a handful of Republicans to join Democrats last month in condemning Mr. Trump's attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color.
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He held a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, in July, where a crowd chanted "Send her back!" in response to Trump's intensified rhetoric attacking four progressive Democratic congresswomen.
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Drawn from interviews with 83 congresswomen, the findings in our book point to at least five ways in which women's representation has made a difference in recent congresses.
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Mr. Hurd was also one of only a handful of Republicans to join Democrats last month in condemning Mr. Trump's attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color.
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But I really think that Strzok was quite - it was quite interesting watching how he handled the Congressmen and Congresswomen, and the way he views himself as against Congress.
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Donald Trump told four non-white Democratic congresswomen, two of them Muslim, to "go back" to where they came from and fix their "own" corrupt governments before criticising America.
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For a group that basically feeds into the U.S. Congress — around 60% of current congresswomen are Girl Scout alums — it was an exciting opportunity to meet their mentors. Rep.
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President Trump on Monday claimed his racist tweets attacking progressive congresswomen weren't racist, and he added that he's not concerned about backlash because "many people" hold his same views.
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He has continued to defend his inflammatory remarks, instead, pointing to what he says is "vile" rhetoric on the part of the four congresswomen, whom he said "hate" America.
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" In a follow-up tweet, he said the four Congresswomen (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib) were the problem, and that they "hate our Country.
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At his rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Trump, railed against the four progressive Democratic congresswomen individually and by name and painting them as the face of the Democratic party.
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Interest by congresswomen like Maloney and the push for research will help make sure the (taxed) feminine hygiene products that women rely on every month are safe and healthy.
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Still, Trump's attacks have undoubtedly raised the profile of the congresswomen, particularly as the large field of Democratic presidential candidates continues to work to distinguish themselves on the issues.
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Tension between the group and Pelosi has spilled into the public eye in recent weeks with Ocasio-Cortez stating that Pelosi has been "singling out" freshmen congresswomen of color.
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a retiring congresswomen from south Florida who is a "NO" vote on the House GOP's health bill that's expected to receive a vote this morning:
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House Democrats did unify this week, however, in denouncing President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Ocasio-Cortez along with the three other progressive Democratic freshmen congresswomen of color -- Reps.
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The "Congresswomen," he wrote, "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world..." should leave.
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Lara Trump also defended the president's recent tweets telling Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to the countries where they came from — even though all four are United States citizens.
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"If Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt won't use 'the R word', I will: Donald Trump telling four Congresswomen of color to 'go back' is racist," Corbyn said on Twitter.
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Their behind-the-scenes West Wing-style finagling comes with some theatrics, particularly when a coalition of congresswomen storm the Senate gates to demand a delay on Thomas' confirmation.
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After a week of bitter infighting between more moderate Democrats and the new class of progressive reps, President Donald Trump's tweets attacking four minority Congresswomen has united the party.
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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color "go back" to countries "from which they came" has excited some in his political base.
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" Trump in a set of tweets Sunday appeared to target an unnamed group of progressive congresswomen "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.
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Pelosi was offering comments about a resolution set to condemn as racist Trump's comments earlier in the week that four minority congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries.
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Trump sparked a firestorm on Sunday after tweeting that Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen — all U.S. citizens and members of minority groups — should "go back" to other countries.
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The president's remarks came at a fund-raiser in Utica for Representative Claudia Tenney, one of two Republican congresswomen in New York whose districts Mr. Trump visited on Monday.
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A Democratic congressional aide with knowledge of the trip disputed that account, saying that the congresswomen had not refused Israeli security on a planned visit to the holy site.
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Hurd, notably, was one of the four Republicans who voted to condemn Trump's racist comments telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to go "back" to where they came from.
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He's tied himself closely to Trump; Daines recently stirred up controversy in Montana by tweeting his support for the president's string of racist tweets against four congresswomen of color.
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But that's OK, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he's good for..... The president's remarks are an outgrowth of his larger campaign against two Muslim Democratic congresswomen — Reps.
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This time, it wasn't a viral video of someone shouting at people for speaking Spanish or a racist tweet telling congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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Take his suggestion that Democratic congresswomen might have a type of disease when they wore "bad-looking white pantsuits" to Trump's address to Congress in solidarity with Hillary Clinton.
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Mr. Trump has made Twitter attacks against lawmakers of color, from the so-called squad of Democratic congresswomen to Representative Elijah J. Cummings, central to his re-election strategy.
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Trump has led the charge several times, as when he launched a series of racist tweets at "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" — presumably meaning Ocasio-Cortez and her political allies Reps.
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Cheadle pointed to the recent attacks by Trump on four congresswomen of color, when he told them to "go back" to where they came from, and on Democratic Rep.
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This diverse new generation of congresswomen has been forged by fire, and this is what I know for sure, we are all the better and the sharper for it!
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Pressley has often been grouped in with the group of freshman congresswomen of color colloquially known as "the squad" composed of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
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He has continued to defend the inflammatory remarks, instead pointing to what he says is "vile" rhetoric on the part of the four liberal congresswomen, whom he said "hate" America.
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There is no non-racist explanation for telling four American congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries, as if the United States does not truly belong to them.
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One study found that congresswomen bring home 9% more funding from federal discretionary programs to their districts than their male counterparts, money that can go directly to helping all constituents.
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Four Democratic congresswomen targeted by President Trump in a racist series of tweets telling them to "go back" to where they came from Sunday responded at a press conference Monday.
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In a rare cordial moment, Mr Trump welcomed the record number of women in work, drawing whoops and cheers from Democratic congresswomen, who had dressed in white for the occasion.
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In 20173, a historic number of black women won election to Congress, marking the first time in history that more than 20 black congresswomen would serve at the same time.
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President Donald Trump has received extreme backlash to his controversial tweets over the weekend against progressive Democratic congresswomen, which were quickly denounced as racist by many across the political spectrum.
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The Facebook group included news stories about detainees who have died while in U.S. custody and encouraged throwing burritos at Congresswomen of color who were visiting an American concentration camp.
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"Surveillance technology is often used to track and control vulnerable communities, particularly communities of color," the congresswomen wrote in a letter asking for co-sponsors, which was verified by Motherboard.
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A source familiar with the legislation told Motherboard that all three congresswomen had heard from people in their districts concerned about this new technology, motivating them to propose this legislation.
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Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib are simply held to a different standard because of the color of their skin, their religion, their names and their assumed immigration status.
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And instead of the Post blasting Trump on the cover for the comments (the newspaper never did), Tuesday's edition of the front page zeroed in on the "far left" congresswomen.
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"So great to see how unified the Republican Party was on today's vote concerning statements I made about four Democrat Congresswomen," tweeted Trump on Monday night after the House rebuke.
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" Attention surrounding the four congresswomen increased yet again when President Trump tweeted on Sunday urging the four women of color to "go back" to the countries they "originally came from.
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BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Merkel on Friday distanced herself from U.S. President Donald Trump's comment that four minority Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff on Monday became the first White House official to speak publicly about President Donald Trump's racist tweets about four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Donald Trump's tweets telling progressive congresswomen to "go back" where they came from were "totally unacceptable," the favourite to replace Theresa May as the United Kingdom's prime minister, has said.
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Democrats have called Trump's weekend remarks disparaging Cummings, a House of Representatives Democrat and a longtime civil rights champion, and his comments about the congresswomen racist - an accusation Trump denied.
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In Arizona's ongoing Senate race, contested by two U.S. congresswomen, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's lead over Republican Martha McSally had widened by Saturday evening to about 23,900 votes, or 1.17 percent.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), one of the first two Muslim congresswomen ever elected in the U.S., wore a traditional Palestinian gown on Thursday as she was sworn into Congress.
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" Trump's targeting of Cummings, a powerful black congressman who has served for more than two decades, followed his days-long assault of four freshman Democratic congresswomen, known as the "Squad.
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The announcement to deny both congresswomen, who planned to visit the territory later this month, came shortly after Trump urged the country to do so over Twitter on Friday morning.
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" Trump took issue with a line of The Washington Post piece that said advisers wrote out talking points and handed the president "reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.
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And Republicans have sought to paint her and Tlaib — along with the other minority congresswomen in "the squad" — as the face of the Democratic Party heading into the 2020 elections.
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C.), who said on Fox News that Trump should "aim higher" than the insults he hurled at the congresswomen (while insulting them himself by calling them "socialists" who hate America).
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Democrats hope that a loss in North Dakota (or earlier in the night) could be erased by a win in Arizona, where two congresswomen -- Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Rep.
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The big picture: Some have speculated that Trump's involvement in the case was meant to divert attention from his racist tweets attacking 4 congresswomen of color, says the Washington Post.
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When he concluded the meeting, Azar said "there is high probability" that Omar and Tlaib would want to visit the Temple Mount due to the fact both congresswomen are Muslim.
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Ban came after Trump intervention The announcement Thursday to prohibit the congresswomen from visiting Israel came shortly after Trump said Israel would be showing "great weakness" by letting them in.
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And Trump delights in being small, in stooping to conquer, as seen by how he convinced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject the application of two congresswomen to visit Israel.
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Why it matters: Aides told Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen following Trump's "go back" tweets attacking 4 congresswomen of color that race-baiting is central to his 2020 strategy.
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Several Democrats said the latest Trump controversy, in which the president told four liberal congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from, won't change things too much.
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In a letter to colleagues that called the tweets against the congresswomen "disgusting attacks," Ms. Pelosi announced that the House would move to officially reject the sentiment in a resolution.
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In fact, it could be argued that Chair Yellen's instant agreement with all of the sundry economic concerns offered up by congressmen and congresswomen contributed to her ultra-dovish reputation.
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Marshall decried socialism and the so-called "Squad" of progressive congresswomen in Washington, DC, pledging to not let them "ruin" the agricultural and oil industries with the Green New Deal.
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Melania may have worn white to stand out against the democratic congresswomen who wore black to the State of the Union out of solidarity with the Time's Up and #MeToo movement.
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"I'm joining my sisters in Congress in wearing white--my white #PalestinianThobe--to #SOTU," Tlaib tweeted, referencing other woman Democratic congresswomen who wore white as a reference to the suffragist movement.
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A bulk of the congresswomen were also seen donning "ERA YES" buttons in photos posted to social media on Tuesday to promote the Equal Rights Amendment, according to The Washington Post.
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"When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to 'Make America Great Again' has always been about making America white again," Pelosi tweeted.
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Green's move was a response to Trump's racist tweets from Sunday, when the president wrote that "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who came from "corrupt" countries should "go back" where they came from.
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The Republican slate looks stronger in Arizona, where two U.S. congresswomen are battling for the Senate seat being vacated by Jeff Flake, a Republican who has been a prominent Trump critic.
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And as long as he perceives that Omar and other congresswomen are useful political foils for him, it's likely that such chants will become a staple at his rallies going forward.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) The big picture: The House voted 240-187 yesterday to condemn Trump's racist tweets against the 4 Democratic congresswomen of color, all of whom are American citizens.
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In attacking four congresswomen of color, by presenting them as uncivil and unpatriotic, the president is continuing a pattern of berating his critics of color by weaponizing the idea of patriotism.
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"I encourage the American people and all of us in this room and beyond to not take the bait," Pressley said at a news conference Monday with the other three congresswomen.
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And on July 14, he used Twitter to ask brown and black congresswomen -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib -- to "go back" to where they came from.
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The chant at Trump's rally comes as the President has repeatedly attacked Omar as well as the three other progressive Democratic congresswomen of color known as "The Squad" using racist language.
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Will Hurd said Monday that President Donald Trump's tweets attacking progressive Democratic congresswomen were "racist and xenophobic," making him one of the few elected Republicans to speak out against Trump's remarks.
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"When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to "Make America Great Again" has always been about making America white again," Pelosi tweeted.
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This is dangerous because it enables grandstanding congressmen and congresswomen to jeopardize the ironclad commitment America has kept for over two centuries: That the United States government always pays its bills.
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My goal was to bring together Main Street's congresswomen with women outside of the Beltway, and to engage them in a dialogue about commonsense policy ideas that have broad bipartisan support.
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The May survey was shared with Axios "President Donald Trump appeared to refer to the poll in a Monday tweet in which he argued that the congresswomen were "very unpopular & unrepresentative.
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The resolution "strongly condemns" Trump for tweets he published on Sunday, in which he called "progressive Democratic congresswomen" — assumed to be referring to the "squad" of freshman progressives, which include Reps.
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And as bad as those numbers are, it's even worse when you look at the Republican caucus, which accounts for just six of those 220006 senators and 2202 of those congresswomen.
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Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar aren't just making headlines with their progressive policy agenda and active social media platforms — they're also hanging out as friends.
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When even our congressmen and congresswomen are at risk, none of us are truly safe — and that's particularly true in communities of color and other communities hardest hit by gun violence.
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Omar's remarks came days after the four freshman congresswomen got into a heated public tangle with Pelosi, prompting the Speaker to admonish lawmakers during a closed-door caucus meeting this week.
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Trump sparked a firestorm starting Sunday when he tweeted that Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen — all U.S. citizens and members of minority groups — should "go back" to their home countries.
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Trump's tweets also followed recent posts by the president in which he said four minority congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from, despite that they are all U.S. citizens.
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Trump's comments about Cummings follow a series of attacks on a group of minority freshman congresswomen this month in which the president said they should "go back" where they came from.
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Swalwell stopped short of calling for Trump's resignation but said he stands with the 56 congresswomen calling for the House Oversight Committee to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against the President.
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However, most House Republicans have either declined to call the tweets racist or have defended the president, pointing to controversial statements the four congresswomen have made about immigration centers and Israel.
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The congresswomen have openly supported BDS and Tlaib announced her intention of leading a delegation to the West Bank to counter the narrative produced by pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC.
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I'm the leader of a national outreach effort to women voters, so I was particularly pleased to see that Main Street's congresswomen championed measures to address problems that disproportionately impact women.
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Co-founded in 2014 by Facebook and Boeing employees, JHS is an informal fundraising group that hosts parties widely attended by Congresswomen and lobbyists, according to Politico reports on the events.
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"Israel's denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great State of Israel," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said.
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Mr Trump has often singled out Ms Omar and Ms Tlaib—along with two other first-term non-white congresswomen, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—for unbecoming abuse and derision.
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"This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country," Mr. Trump tweeted.
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"This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country," Mr. Trump tweeted.
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The vote had the potential to expose an ideological divide within the caucus, pitting progressives against moderates even after Democrats united against President Donald Trump's racist tweets against four minority congresswomen.
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Since then, Trump has continued to defend his inflammatory remarks and instead, pointed to what he said is "vile" rhetoric on the part of the four congresswomen, whom he claimed "hate" America.
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The newly elected members of the 116th Congress arrived in Washington, D.C. this week for the start of their congressional orientation, and some of the congresswomen-elect are already making a splash.
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During a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, President Donald Trump addressed the four Democratic congresswomen of color known as "The Squad," whom he launched a racist attack on over the weekend.
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The four progressive freshmen congresswomen who in recent days have come under attack from President Donald Trump will respond to the president in an unusual news conference scheduled for Monday evening. Reps.
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For more than a week, President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked four first-term congresswomen of color, claiming that the women are unpatriotic and should leave the US. He's said that Reps.
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Ilhan Omar said Thursday President Donald Trump is "spewing his fascist ideology" after Trump rallygoers chanted "Send her back!" about Omar as the President intensified his attacks on four congresswomen of color.
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The announcement comes amid a heated debate over who should be allowed in the country after President Donald Trump targeted progressive congresswomen, telling them to "go back" to where they came from.
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Cory Booker on Monday said President Donald Trump is "ripping at the fabric of our country for his own political gain" in response to the President's racist language attacking four progressive congresswomen.
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A series of recent tweets from the President drew criticism -- even from some members of his own party -- in the last few days after he made racist jabs at four Democratic congresswomen.
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On Sunday, Trump tweeted; "I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country," accused them of "destroying the Democratic Party," and said they should "apologize to America" and Israel.
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She says Trump's recent comments telling four congresswomen to "go back to where they came from" were a reminder that someday she will need to help her daughter deal with racism, too.
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Green referenced the President's racist tweets this past weekend targeting four Democratic congresswomen of color, which were condemned by the House in a vote Tuesday moments before Green introduced his impeachment resolution.
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Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley are now offering T-shirts that read "We are the squad" in exchange for a shared donation of $25 or more.
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Green said his effort had nothing to do with Mueller's investigation, but that he was focusing on Trump's attacks on the congresswomen, which he said demonstrated Trump was unfit to be president.
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He said the congresswomen known as "the squad" use their own inflammatory rhetoric against Trump, calling him a fascist and at times refusing to refer to him by his title of president.
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Over the past week, President Trump repeatedly weaponized the office of the presidency to attack four sitting congresswomen — all of whom are women of color — with violent and exceedingly undemocratic rhetoric. Reps.
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And now, it's evolving into a cry for help from the mayor of Flint as well as Michigan congresswomen and men asking for federal funding anywhere between $55 million and $1 billion.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau derided US President Donald Trump's racist remarks that a group of freshman congresswomen should go and fix what Trump described as "totally broken" countries they came from.
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Looking ahead, if Congress regains control of this constitutional power, having congresswomen in the room could draw attention to the effect of war on women and the need to mitigate its consequences.
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On Monday, he asked when the "Radical Left Congresswomen" would apologize to the U.S. On Tuesday, Trump declared he didn't have a racist bone in his body in response to growing criticism.
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Green, whose previous impeachment votes have accused Trump of inflaming racial tensions, offered the measure immediately after the House on Tuesday voted to condemn Trump over tweets targeting four minority Democratic congresswomen.
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The rally was held three days after the initial tweets last Sunday, in which Trump told the four congresswomen of color to "go back" to the "crime infested places" they came from.
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A gun shop in western North Carolina is facing backlash for using a billboard to insult "the Squad," four progressive minority congresswomen, as "idiots," calling them the "four horsemen" of the apocalypse.
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The release of this conversation came as President Donald Trump faces backlash over racist tweets he sent about several congresswomen of color and disparaging comments he made toward the city of Baltimore.
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But when the president tweeted racist language in his attack on four progressive Democratic congresswomen two weeks ago, Twitter did not label the tweets — an apparent contradiction of its own written policies.
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The NY/PA Food Fight was hosted by the political news groups City & State PA and City & State NY, and Congresswomen Maloney and Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan Boyle headed up their respective delegations.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally, echoed Trump's tweeted sentiments: "The plan of the two Congresswomen is only to damage Israel and to foment against Israel," Netanyahu said in a statement.
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It didn't mention Trump by name, but the article came in the wake of Trump's tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color — all American citizens — to "go back" to their own countries.
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The enthusiasm and hopefulness he generated also undoubtedly helped the election of the state's first two Latina congresswomen, and unseated longtime incumbent Republicans John Culberson of Houston and Pete Sessions of Dallas.
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy on Tuesday asserted that ideological differences between progressive freshman congresswomen and less liberal Democratic lawmakers have not inhibited consensus-building among the party's members in the House of Representatives.
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Democratic congresswomen Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have all thrown their hats in the ring.
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Over the summer, Trump was widely denounced for calling into question the patriotism of four freshman congresswomen of color, tweeting that those U.S. citizens should "go back" to their countries of origin.
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Driving the news: In the days since the congresswomen announced their planned visit to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government had to decide whether to let them into the country.
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The answer was in long before the president sent an especially offensive tweet this week, inviting four unnamed, but by inference non-white, Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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Iowa Democrats celebrated two freshman congresswomen, Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne, who both won office in a midterm election in which female candidates and voters fueled the Democratic surge to a House majority.
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The statements, including saying the congresswomen should "go back" to the countries they came from, were widely viewed as racially divisive, underlining the extent to which those divisions have persisted through the centuries.
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A group of United States congressmen and congresswomen have reached out to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging him to ensure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is involved in the investigation.
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Twitter won't be treating President Donald Trump's recent tweets telling congresswomen to "go back" to their supposed home countries as a violation of its hateful conduct policy, the company confirmed to The Verge.
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It's also worth noting that just because Ocasio-Cortez once captioned a picture "Squad" doesn't mean that the four congresswomen see themselves as a separate group from others in Congress, or in America.
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Days after receiving widespread backlash for tweeting racist comments that seemingly referred to a group of Democratic congresswomen of color, President Donald Trump spoke about the women again in a tweet on Sunday.
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The Senate race in Arizona between two U.S. congresswomen, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, appeared days away from a final call with hundreds of thousands of ballots yet to be tallied.
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Here's what to watch (CNBC) President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen who have criticized his policies, calling on them to apologize as he himself faced charges of racism.
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How do you look, let's say, stay on this issue, two more things, the new crop of congresswomen — a phenomenon that some people are comparing to Obama, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, but also Underwood.
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While Trump is not the employer of these four congresswomen and therefore likely not subject to laws governing their work environment, the federal government has deemed the phrase he used to be discriminatory.
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The House Democratic Women's Working Group is urging congresswomen of both parties to don white, a symbol of the women's suffrage movement, for President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen who have criticized his policies, calling on them to apologize as he himself faced charges of racism.
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"When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to "Make America Great Again" has always been about making America white again," Pelosi tweeted on Sunday.
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Biden, who served eight years as Barack Obama's vice president and 36 years as a U.S. senator, epitomizes a Democratic establishment the four congresswomen who dub themselves "the squad" have vowed to upend.
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"When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to 'Make America Great Again' has always been about making America white again," she wrote on Twitter.
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The House voted 332-95 to table a resolution from Green to impeach Trump for inflaming racial tensions, most recently after suggesting that four progressive congresswomen of color "go back" to their countries.
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The dust-up came after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made remarks about the first-year congresswomen in an interview with The New York Times last weekend that some perceived to be dismissive.
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The remarks came during a discussion about President Trump's tweets urging four Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to their home "countries," which have been officially condemned as "racist" by the House of Representatives.
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Trump sparked the latest political storm on Sunday when he tweeted that Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen — all U.S. citizens and members of minority groups — should "go back" to their home countries.
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Joined on the trip by several congresswomen from the state, Pelosi told reporters that her primary motivation for serving in government has been improving life for younger generations, according to The Associated Press.
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After Trump tweeted this month that four congresswomen of color should "go back" to the countries "from which they came," Twitter said the tweet didn't violate its rules but declined to explain why.
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"Similarly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a statement said, "Israel's denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great State of Israel.
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And in both parties, congresswomen, more than their male colleagues, champion family-friendly policies, including increasing the minimum wage, closing the wage gap, fighting for paid leave, expanding childcare options and improving education.
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All but Omar were born in the U.S. Tlaib did not specifically address the Trump tweets in her speech but invoked "the squad," the colloquial term for the four congresswomen, in her address.
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Freshmen congresswomen should be given the opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of Washington in the same way that freshmen congressmen are, not saddled unfairly with the impossible goal of redeeming Congress.
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Trump raised a firestorm this month when he tweeted that four progressive Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from, even though all are U.S. citizens and three are U.S.-born.
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"This trip, pure and simple, is nothing more than an effort to fuel the (boycott movement) engine that Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar so vigorously support," Friedman said in a statement released Thursday evening.
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A number of the Democratic presidential candidates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have condemned Israel's decision, giving Trump what he wants by forcing them to back the congresswomen who Trump claims hate Jews.
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Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from entry over their support for a boycott of Israel shortly after Trump said the country would be showing "great weakness" by allowing the two Democratic congresswomen to enter.
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" Pressed on whether she supported the four congresswomen — Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the chancellor said, "Yes.
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Trump's attacks this summer on four freshman congresswomen of color and his barbs against the late House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, in which he called Baltimore a "rodent infested mess" haven't helped matters.
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H.), Elissa SlotkinElissa SlotkinPolls flash warning signs for Trump on impeachment Pelosi-backed group funding ads for vulnerable Democrats amid impeachment inquiry CNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders MORE (Mich.), Abigail SpanbergerAbigail Davis SpanbergerBipartisan lawmakers who visited Syrian border slam Trump's 'rash decision' Pelosi-backed group funding ads for vulnerable Democrats amid impeachment inquiry CNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders MORE (Va.) and Matthew Cartwright (Pa.), according to the Post.
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Why it matters: Trump's ongoing battle with "the squad" continued on Sunday, with the president tweeting that he doesn't "believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country" and that they should apologize.
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And then we had moved on to another controversy involving anti-Semitism from a member of Congress on the political left, which turned into more finger-pointing until the congresswomen eventually issued an apology.
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Trump caused a firestorm over the summer when he tweeted that four minority congresswomen should "go back" where they came from, despite all four being U.S. citizens and three of them being born here.
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Ilhan Omar a ticket to visit Somalia so "she might come back and appreciate America more," echoing racist language President Donald Trump recently used to attack the Somalian refugee and three other minority congresswomen.
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But the racism against the four congresswomen reminds us all that this othering behavior is a result of who we are -- not what we do, what our status is or what we fight for.
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" The incident came just days after backlash over President Trump's tweets suggesting that a group of Democratic congresswomen "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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New York (CNN Business)Judging by his tweets, President Donald Trump's views about freshman congresswomen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been shaped partly by the severely critical things he has heard on Fox News.
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Trump has been criticized from Democrats and progressives for racist attacks he recently made on four minority congresswomen, which were condemned in a resolution by House Democrats that was largely opposed by House Republicans.
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The approach has seen Biden condemning Trump's attacks on the congresswomen as racist, another sign the Republican president is "tearing the soul out of this country," Biden said on Wednesday in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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President Trump's racist attack on four progressive congresswomen of color Sunday has prompted celebrities and members of the public to share their own stories of being told to "go back" to their own countries.
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President Donald Trump has told at least two Republican lawmakers he is angry about what he believes to be a weak defense among congressional Republicans of his tweets targeting four congresswomen, Politico reported Tuesday.
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In a series of Sunday morning tweets, President Donald Trump once again fueled his feud with the "Squad" of freshman congresswomen that includes Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.
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Representatives for both Omar and Tlaib confirmed to The Hill this week that the congresswomen had signed the pledge, effectively vowing to support any impeachment efforts brought against Trump by the Democratic-controlled House.
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The simple fact of the matter is, the four Congresswomen think that America is wicked in its origins, they think that America is even more wicked now, that we are all racist and evil.
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" The incident follows a series of tweets in which Trump suggested that Omar and other progressive congresswomen should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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When asked why thinks Trump decided to take shots at the congresswomen, Lieu said the president is becoming increasingly "unhinged" as he is continuously unable to push forward with his policies and campaign promises.
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To best support these women's work and advocate for a transformation of patriarchal norms, we would do well to focus on the institutional challenges new congresswomen face in the days, months, and years ahead.
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" Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved on Monday to formally condemn Trump's attacks on the congresswomen as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her party would introduce a resolution criticizing his "xenophobic tweets.
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Hikind founded a group called Americans Against Antisemitism and largely rubs shoulders online with right-wing media types that obsessively criticize "The Squad" of freshmen Democratic congresswomen of which Ocasio-Cortez is a part.
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We've gone through more than any president or administration, and really, I say for the most part, Republican congressmen, congresswomen and Republican senators, we've done more than any administration in the first few years.
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Mr. Trump, whose recent attacks on four congresswomen of color were condemned as racist by the House of Representatives, has said that his African-American friends had asked him to intervene in Rocky's case.
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Republican women increased their numbers in the House to 22010 from 22020; Ms. Palin had endorsed six of the nine new congresswomen, as well as the one new Senator, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.
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More good reads on the hearing: Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez, in Refinery 29: The Freshman Congresswomen Did Their Damn Job At Cohen's Hearing Michael D'Antonio: I was one of the 500 people Michael Cohen threatened.
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Ms. Spanberger had a day-to-day friendship with several other first-year congresswomen with military or service backgrounds, but they were only beginning to figure out how they might amplify each others' voices.
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"I can speak for all of the senators and congressmen and congresswomen, all the people in this room that are involved in this decision, that we will act, we will do something," Trump said.
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The President's language was widely regarded as racist and the House passed a resolution condemning it, but Trump doubled down and insisted the congresswomen leave the country if they continue complaining about his policies.
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He was even shrewd enough to add references to mass shootings and President Trump's controversial comments against the so-called "squad" of four freshman female congresswomen who are each members of racial minority communities.
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In November 2018, a segment by the Fox News host Laura Ingraham presented a list of "WACKY NEW DEMOCRATIC IDEAS," followed by recordings of four new congresswomen, including Ocasio-Cortez, publicly espousing their positions.
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Over the fall, current and former congresswomen and staffers opened up about their experiences dealing with harassment in Congress — even going as far as disclosing that some of the accused were male lawmakers currently serving.
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In response, congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chellie Pingree co-authored a letter to these Silicon Valley giants, shaming them for supporting the event and giving them a lesson on the dangers of climate denialism.
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The four minority Congresswomen were also the subject of a since-deleted Facebook meme of a movie-style poster calling them "The Jihad Squad," which was shared by the Republican County Chairmen's Association of Illinois.
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Former President Barack Obama shared Saturday a Washington Post op-ed by his former staffers, which criticizes President Donald Trump for his treatment of minority groups and for derogatory comments about 4 congresswomen of color.
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The attacks on the Democratic congresswomen come at a time when women of color — a diverse group that includes black, Latina, Native American, and Asian American women — have become increasingly influential in the Democratic Party.
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Voters also nominated the nation's first-ever transgender gubernatorial candidate, of either major political party, as well as another Democrat almost certain to serve — alongside Michigan's Rashida Tlaib — as one of the first Muslim congresswomen.
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For these reasons, one colleague told me, it is not enough for journalists to "fact-check" Trump's tweets by noting that all four of the congresswomen are citizens, and three were born in this country.
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"The Dems were trying to distance themselves from the four 'progressives,' but now they are forced to embrace them," Trump tweeted in the wake of his racist attacks on 4 Democratic congresswomen over the weekend.
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Trump views his attacks on the four congresswomen of color as an unbridled political success, people familiar with his thinking say, and plans to continue his efforts as he moves into a period of politicking.
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" Omar condemned the President's Twitter attack against the freshmen congresswomen as "a blatantly racist attack on four duly elected members of the United States of House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color.
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Washington (CNN)House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said President Donald Trump's racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color bring back memories of the racism he faced as a child growing up in Baltimore.
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" McCain criticized O'Rourke because the former Texas congressman had compared President Donald Trump standing by as a North Carolina crowd chanted "send them back" in reference to four congresswomen to a "an impromptu Nuremberg rally.
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Trump's tweets and subsequent defenses of his comments have since caused a firestorm on Capitol Hill, forcing Pelosi to put aside her disagreements with the four congresswomen and their staffs and come to their defense.
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The four congresswomen also held a press conference on Monday, where they said that Trump's comments were a "distraction" from what they wanted to work toward in office and that the comments challenged American ideals.
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"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out," Trump tweeted.
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After taking a brief break from campaigning after the heart attack was made public, Sanders has returned to the campaign trail with several members of the so-called "squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen, including Reps.
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The twin rookie congresswomen, with their very existence, poke holes at the idea that only unveiled Muslim American women are suitably assimilated (read: safe) or that all veiled ladies are pathetically submissive or latent terrorists.
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Trump celebrated Israel's decision while tying the controversial pair of congresswomen to the Democratic Party: Trump might be happy — but Israel's top allies in the U.S. aren't, including some of Omar and Tlaib's harshest critics.
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A North Carolina gun shop owner has defended his roadside billboard advert suggesting four progressive congresswomen of color who in recent weeks have been singled out for attacks by President Trump are agents of apocalypse.
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The big picture: Axios' Jonathan Swan and I reported this weekend that Trump was unhappy with Netanyahu's decision to allow Omar and Tlaib into the country, telling his advisers that Israel should bar the congresswomen.
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" The comments came weeks after Trump drew bipartisan condemnation following his calls for Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. "right now," and go back to their "broken and crime-infested countries.
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One might also point out that Israel has survived wars, terrorist campaigns and seven decades of concerted efforts to erase it from the map; it could probably handle a brief visit from two American congresswomen.
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This past summer, in one of the most bizarre applications, Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who is white and Republican, described himself as a "person of color" when discussing Trump's comments about four Democratic congresswomen.
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The Post story documents Mitchell's frustration with Trump's attacks on the "Squad" -- four Democratic women of color in Congress -- and, in particular, the President's call for the congresswomen to "go back" where they came from.
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I was figuring all of that out so I could begin to explore the overarching question driving me: How would this record-breaking number of first-year congresswomen — among them, two who were ex-C.
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The hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Arizona between two congresswomen, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, appeared days away from a final call, with hundreds of thousands of ballots yet to be tallied.
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Tlaib, the third member of the "squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen to endorse Sanders for president, appeared with the Vermont senator at the Sunday event, which also included a rally at Cass Technical School, and credited him for defending her and her fellow congresswomen amid attacks by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE earlier this year.
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"We know what it feels like to be dehumanized, we know what it feels like to be brown and black in this country," Tlaib said on ABC's "This Week," referring to the four singled-out congresswomen.
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The congresswomen — who said they represent a contingent of young lawmakers hungry for change on the powerful panel — told Raskin they wanted a liberal firebrand who would undertake "strong and aggressive" oversight of the Trump administration.
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Sophia Bush joined 36 other women authoring an open letter published in Makers, including former Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords, CEO Shelley Lazarus, media titans Arianna Huffington and Katie Couric, and celebrities including Geena Davis and Ellen DeGeneres.
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Others focused squarely on the actions and rhetoric of the president, calling out Trump's long history of racism, including his recent tweets and statements calling for four congresswomen of color to "go back" to other countries.
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Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen, a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll shows.
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President Trump said it's "great to see" Republican Party unity after 4 GOP lawmakers sided with House Democrats in a 240-187 vote to condemn him Tuesday for racist tweets against 4 Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Others said Trump had not intended his comments to be associated with the electoral success of the congresswomen — although Trump then referenced the fact that there were now more women serving in Congress than ever before.
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President Trump President Trump launched a racist Twitter attack against four Democratic congresswomen of color over the weekend, telling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley to "go back" to their home countries.
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Ocasio-Cortez responded to Rispoli's post, which was first reported by The Times-Picayune-New Orleans Advocate, by tying the language to President Donald Trump's recent racist attacks against her and three other congresswomen of color.
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Asked about his wife Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and whether McConnell would consider an attack against her similar to the one made on the four congresswomen racist, the Kentucky Republican did not directly answer the question.
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"It's different when you're running in an open seat than when you're challenging, say, a Barbara Comstock or Ileana Ros-Lehtinen," Kondik said, naming a pair of Republican congresswomen from districts Hillary Clinton won last fall.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a sometime Trump golf partner and adviser, called the four congresswomen "communist" and "anti-Semitic" on Fox News on Monday, but he also called on Trump to stop making such personal attacks.
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"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out," he tweeted Monday.
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The president has spoken about an "invasion" of migrants at the U.S. southern border, and he recently told four minority Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to their home countries even though all four are Americans citizens.
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This is not to suggest that the Democratic nominee shouldn't make a campaign issue of Trump's racist tweets extolling four congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from, or any number of his racist statements.
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Omar, who recently endorsed Sanders along with two other members of the "squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen, went on during her speech to point out Sanders's record of standing up to special interests and Wall Street.
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Current media coverage of freshmen congresswomen implicitly gives them the tasks of saving the United States from a misogynistic White House, remedying tribulations from the Kavanaugh Senate hearings, and redeeming the promise of the American dream.
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In a world where optics are everything, these congresswomen are pulling from a history in which women used their appearance to send a message to men who simply couldn't fathom their power — and even feared it.
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In a time when little legislation seems to be making it through Congress, several bills have passed the House with the leadership of congresswomen working together, across the aisle, to address important issues facing our nation.
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Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from entry over their support for a boycott of Israel shortly after President Donald Trump said Israel would be showing "great weakness" by allowing the two Democratic congresswomen to enter the country.
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At the same time, congresswomen, scholars, and practitioners concerned about gender inequality are acutely aware that progress in representation for women in Congress has been slow, is far from complete, and does not happen without work.
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M.), Mikie SherrillRebecca (Mikie) Michelle SherrillHouse Dems introduce bill to fight social media disinformation CNN faces backlash for video highlighting white congresswomen as impeachment leaders GOP ratchets up 2020 attacks as impeachment storm grows MORE (N.
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"They're free to leave if they want," Mr. Trump said on Monday morning of the congresswomen, referring to Representatives Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts.
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WASHINGTON — Representative Sylvia R. Garcia, a freshman Democrat who was named Wednesday as a House impeachment manager, made history last year when she was sworn in as one of the first two Latina congresswomen from Texas.
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Like last year, some congresswomen have also donned a green "ERA Yes!" button to endorse the renewed effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine equality between men and women into the US Constitution.
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For his part, Biden has praised Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the left-leaning "squad" of freshman congresswomen as "brilliant" and "really smart," but warned their political ideology was not representative of most elected Democrats.
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Trump, 73, told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he believed the Democratic congresswomen "hate Israel and hate Jewish people" because of their support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) for Palestinian rights.
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Instead, these attacks are straight-up attempts to turn her into the boogeyman of the GOP base's Islamophobic nightmares, meant to gin up politically useful fear and anger by targeting one of the first-ever Muslim congresswomen.
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That spirit inspired future congresswomen like Ocasio-Cortez, who shared the story on Twitter and mentioned that Sotomayor's devotion to bold color is what inspired her own choice to wear gold hoops to her swearing-in ceremony.
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Close to one week after the president shared several offensive tweets about the four congresswomen of color, the former first lady, 55, provided her own input about what makes America so special in a message on Twitter.
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And when Trump recently used racist language to attack four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that the President's tweets were not against its rules -- a conclusion apparently contradicted by Twitter's written policies.
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Some White House aides, meanwhile, have privately expressed discomfort at the Cummings broadside and concerns that they are misguided given that Cummings is a far less savory target than the four progressive Democratic congresswomen Trump previously attacked.
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" Trump used racist language this weekend to attack four Democratic congresswomen, implying that they weren't born in America and suggesting, "they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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In Trump's America, disloyalty to country looks like four freshmen congresswomen who got elected on the promise that they would stand against many of Trump's policies and against whom the president has launched racist and xenophobic attacks.
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Later in the campaign, Johnson was pressed on another Trump-related outcry -- the President's tweets suggesting that four US Congresswomen of color should "go back" to the countries they came from, even though all four are American.
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" President Trump unleashed a racist Twitter rant aimed at a group of minority Democratic congresswomen, telling the four American citizens to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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Miller first insisted that Trump, in contrast with Ocasio-Cortez and company, is a champion of "the principles of Western civilization," the implication being that Obama and the congresswomen of color he's been feuding with are not.
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But Sanders has seen his poll numbers rise in recent weeks amid renewed enthusiasm from the thousands of supporters attending his rallies and the endorsements from three members of "the squad," a group of prominent progressive congresswomen.
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"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out," he tweeted early Monday.
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While this isn't the first year that white has been worn to Trump's SOTU, the large number of first-term congresswomen made the image all the more striking, and new members made the tradition their own. Rep.
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It followed four days of controversy over a series of Sunday tweets in which Trump suggested Omar and three other progressive minority congresswomen, all of whom were born in the U.S., to "go back" to other countries.
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President Trump is set to headline a rally in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday night, where he is expected to talk about the four minority congresswomen he told earlier this week to go back to where they came from.
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The two congresswomen had openly supported the movement previously, and the announcement that Israeli officials would block the lawmakers' scheduled visit this weekend came shortly after Trump tweeted to encourage the U.S. ally to deny them entry.
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Payne said that Trump's recent conduct – telling a group of minority congresswomen to "go back" to their home countries and ripping the district of a black congressman – may have played into Biden's hands ahead of the debate.
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Comey pointed to U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom Trump attacked for his Mexican heritage; his comments about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color, among other incidents.
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If freshmen congresswomen don't meet the impossible standards being set for them, these lofty hopes will become fodder for naysayers and seeds of doubt for supporters, making it even more difficult for women to win future elections.
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Their outspoken liberal platforms have drawn conservative criticism from the start, but in addition to attacking policies the Congresswomen promote, such as Medicare-for-all, Trump has gone after them — particularly Omar — along racial and religious lines.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday defended his attacks against four Democratic congresswomen, saying he was not concerned if people thought his tweets toward them were racist and accused the U.S. lawmakers of hating America.
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I think there are parallels to what this woman said in the early 1900s and what white women are saying today about African-descended people, whether they be congresswomen or just average black folk on the street.
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Sanford further pushed these beliefs in an interview with CNN on Tuesday afternoon, putting financial policy at the core of his platform and saying Trump's attacks on four freshman congresswomen of color distract from core party principles.
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Last week, much of America wrestled with whether to label the president racist after he published racist tweets about four congresswomen of color, demonstrating once again in the most overt terms that he is indeed a racist.
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A CNN story that highlighted a group of white congresswomen as "leaders on impeachment" is facing backlash, with critics quick to point out many members of Congress of color were among the first to push for impeachment.
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Speaking to reporters in Berlin on Friday at her annual summer news conference, the chancellor fielded questions on a broad range of topics, but was asked repeatedly about her position regarding Mr. Trump's insults to the congresswomen.
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All four of the freshman congresswomen are U.S. citizens, and only Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, was born outside the U.S. "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted Sunday.
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The president says something outrageous—this time Donald Trump told four black and brown-skinned Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are US citizens and three of whom were born in America, to "go back" where they came from.
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Just look to this year's State of the Union address, where congresswomen stood united in all-white clothing and red lipstick — a nod to suffragettes who wore the shade as a symbol of women's emancipation in the past.
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We had sitting Congresswomen and Senators, basically they&aposre getting arrested as well or sympathizing and agreeing, "Abolish I.C.E". How concerned is the administration that this could actually galvanize the Democrats to turn out to vote in November?
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President Donald Trump fired off a string of tweets Sunday morning to criticize progressive Democratic congresswomen and urge them to "go back" to the "crime-infested places from which they came," despite the fact that they are American.
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President Trump has also continued to target Ocasio-Cortez and three other progressive congresswomen, known as "the Squad," telling the American citizens to "go back" to their countries and inciting similar racist and demeaning messages from his supporters.
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President Trump continued his Twitter attacks on "Radical Left Congresswomen" on Monday, escalating his rhetoric one day after a racist string of tweets said that legislators should "go back" and fix their own countries before shaping American government.
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What Omar's dark nail polish is also quietly doing here (whether she intends it to or not) is showing that congresswomen don't have to style themselves to look like one homogenous group in order to be taken seriously.
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"President Trump is super-racist against African-Americans: housing discrimination, Central Park Five, Birtherism, attacking pregnant gold-star widow (and her congresswomen), degrading NFL players over fight for racial justice," Economist David Rothschild replied to Trump on Twitter.
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At the same time, two Democratic congresswomen, Debbie Dingell of Michigan and Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, signed a letter to Pai voicing their concerns over the apparent ease with which real-time location data can be illegally obtained.
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Trump told four nonwhite Democratic congresswomen that they should "go back" to the "crime infested places" where they came from, even though three of the four were born in the US and the fourth is a naturalized citizen.
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It's the latest in a multi-day controversy involving Trump and a foursome of first-term congresswomen of color, who Trump has repeatedly denigrated as he works to paint them as the new face of the Democratic Party.
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Stoehr wrote that Trump's tweets imagine an "in-group" status for Trump and his supporters, and an "out-group" status for the four congresswomen Trump depicts as being "foreign" and having "vicious" motives in their policymaking and speech.
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Washington (CNN)A former Texas judge and longtime Republican announced this week she has left the Republican Party, denouncing President Donald Trump's "ideology" of "racism" on the heels of Trump's racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Later in the campaign, Johnson was pressed on another Trump-related controversy -- the President's racist tweets suggesting that four US congresswomen of color should "go back" to the countries they came from, even though all four are American.
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It's not clear how many were part of the protest, but some female and male employees at the event wore all white, inspired by the congresswomen who wore suffragette white to the State of the Union in February.
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On Monday, the two congresswomen will introduce a national "domestic workers' bill of rights," sweeping federal legislation that would ensure paid overtime, safe working conditions, and legal recourse for harassment and discrimination on the job for domestic workers.
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"So these Congresswomen, their comments are helping to fuel the rise of a dangerous, militant hard left," the Republican president said to roars from the crowd in North Carolina, a state seen as key to his re-election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump for "racist comments" against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic measure aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him.
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KAREN YOURISH After Mr. Trump tweeted attacks on "the Squad," the four Democratic congresswomen of color, our executive editor, Dean Baquet, felt like it would be worth doing a deep dive into what Mr. Trump has been tweeting.
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Siphan said he was referring to a Twitter posting last month by U.S. President Donald Trump telling four ethnic minority Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to the "the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".
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Read more: Weeks of Democratic infighting between Nancy Pelosi and 'the Squad' preceded Trump's racist tweet attacksOmar was among four congresswomen of color who Trump on Sunday told to "go back" to their "corrupt" and "crime infested" countries.
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Instead, they tried playing offense by accusing the four congresswomen — among the Democrats' most left-leaning members and ardent Trump critics — of socialism, an accusation that's already a central theme of the GOP's 2020 presidential and congressional campaigns.
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Advisers and allies of President Donald Trump warned that his attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color on Sunday may have backfired, helping to unite a fractious Democratic Party and veering off his 2020 campaign message, Politico reported.
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On Tuesday, when Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee of a major party, a handful of drug companies and health insurers made sure to echo the theme, paying to sponsor an "Inspiring Women" panel featuring Democratic congresswomen.
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In mid-July, Trump was widely condemned for telling a group of congresswomen of color to "go back to the broken and crime-infested places from which they came," and unleashed a tweetstorm over the weekend attacking Rep.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Both candidates vying to replace Theresa May as Britain's prime minister said they agreed with her that the language used by U.S. President Donald Trump about a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen was unacceptable.
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When the congresswomen erupted in wild, self-congratulatory applause and high-fives, Trump seemed startled at the unintended consequences of his remarks, not unlike his surprise over being laughed at by delegates at the United Nations in September.
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Driving the news: Trump has told U.S. advisers, including senior Trump administration officials, that Israel should bar Omar and Tlaib's entry because the two congresswomen favor a boycott of Israel, according to sources familiar with Trump's private comments.
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The Post's lengthy story notes Trump's response to the spate of mass shootings and several controversies he stirred up, including his attacks against four congresswomen of color known as "the Squad" and his tweets lashing out at Rep.
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"In another appearance on a radio show in October, the Republican referred to the congresswomen as "those girls," and claimed Pelosi had "used them and their veteran ... status as cover to be able to start an impeachment inquiry.
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Mr. Trump clearly sees a political advantage in his targeting of the congresswomen, betting that by focusing attention on them, he will be better able to paint all Democrats with a broad brush of socialism and radical policies.
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Reporter Andrew Feinberg later said that he had asked Conway what Trump could have meant by his original tweets after, according to him, Conway said Trump didn't tell the four congresswomen to return to the countries of their ancestors.
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Days after waving off the backlash to his racist tweets about four congresswomen of color, President Donald Trump said he did not agree with the "send her back!" chant that broke out this week at one of his rallies.
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" Earlier this month, Trump -- in racist language that was later condemned by a House resolution -- told four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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Trump's tweets took aim at progressive Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley—a squad of freshman lawmakers whose recent dust-ups with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have dominated the attention of the popular press.
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" Trump had implied in a series of tweets on Sunday that the four progressive congresswomen weren't born in America and sarcastically suggested, "they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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New York (CNN Business)ESPN radio and TV personality Dan Le Batard called his network's relatively new politics-free stance "cowardly" in the face of President Donald Trump and his supporters' racist remarks about four Democratic congresswomen of color.
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Ahead of the Wednesday vote, Green dismissed calls from within his party to hold off on the resolution, arguing that impeachment should follow Tuesday's House vote that condemned racist attacks Trump recently made on Twitter against four minority congresswomen.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump for racially charged attacks against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic vote aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen, a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll shows.
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" First, he asked: "When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the comments by President Donald Trump about four minority Democratic congresswomen are racist and called on the candidates to be the country's next prime minister to use the term.
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The U.S. Rep from Minnesota is not holding her tongue in responding to Trump -- telling a photog Monday in Washington, D.C. ... she's been a citizen for 2 decades, and the other Congresswomen he attacked were born in this country.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday told four progressive congresswomen to The attack has prompted people from all walks of life who were born in or migrated to the US to share their stories of being subjected to the taunt.
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Representative Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts, the only member of the group of progressive first-term congresswomen nicknamed "the squad" who had not yet backed a Democratic presidential candidate, has endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a longtime ally.
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Trump has been preoccupied for days on the media coverage of his attacks on the four congresswomen, which began with tweets eight days ago saying the lawmakers should "go back" to their countries despite all four being U.S. citizens.
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Now here comes a crop of fearless left-wing politicians, from first-term congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar to septuagenarian Senator Bernie Sanders, whose fearless policies are generating much of the excitement among the rank-and-file.
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"I'm 65 years old, I've been voting since I was 18 years old and I've never heard a president ever say anything like that to the Congress people," said Kimbel, referring to Trump's comments about the four minority congresswomen.
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Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who is among the four minority congresswomen that Trump attacked on Sunday, shared Ocasio-Cortez's tweet later Tuesday, adding in her own tweet that Trump "doesn't want us to remember" the "Access Hollywood" video.
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In addition to creating a map showing each state's history of electing — or not electing — women to Congress, Vox has created a searchable tool that lets you see which, if any, Congresswomen have represented you, based on your address.
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Many congresswomen will also show up to Tuesday's address wearing white, a tradition that's emerged in the Trump era as a gesture to the women's suffrage movement and, more recently, a show of support for survivors of sexual assault.
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ABC's World News Tonight ran "racially charged" in a tweet of their own talking about Trump's tweets telling 4 Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from, despite 3 being American born and all being American citizens.
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As Trump's racist invective against Ilhan Omar and three other freshman Democratic congresswomen has dominated the news, the president's defenders have used Jews as human shields, pretending that hatred of the quartet is rooted in abhorrence of anti-Semitism.
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The President also previously targeted the four progressive congresswomen of color with racist language, suggesting "they go back" to the countries from which they came, though three were born in the US and Omar is a naturalized US citizen.
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" And on Wednesday, after the conference had come to an end in Washington, Trump was at a political rally in North Carolina, listing off allegations about one of those congresswomen and then standing by as his crowd chanted "send her back.
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BERTRAND HORWITZAsheville, North Carolina Along with most other media, The Economist reminded its readers that three of the four congresswomen who were subjected to Donald Trump's rants were born in America and the fourth is a naturalised citizen (Lexington, July 0003th).
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And while most other new congresswomen stuck to the status quo on Thursday, wearing light pink polish or no polish at all, it's refreshing to see women like Omar expressing themselves with beauty in the same way their constituents do.
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"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out," Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.
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And Trump's advisors tell the Washington Post that the overall message — coming on the heels of his "go back" tweets aimed at 4 non-white congresswomen —resonates well with his political base, including white working-class voters he needs in 2020.
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" Shortly before the news conference began, Trump unloaded a series of tweets apparently directed at the four congresswomen, in which he accused "certain people" of being "anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda" and promoting "drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more.
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Greenville, North Carolina (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday intensified his attacks on four progressive Democratic congresswomen, painting them as the face of the Democratic Party -- as a fevered crowd chanted "Send her back!" about an American congresswoman of color.
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New York (CNN Business)President Trump's weekend tweets in which he used racist language to attack four progressive Democratic congresswomen are not against Twitter's rules, a company spokesperson told CNN Business Monday — a conclusion apparently contradicted by Twitter's written policies.
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They have different backgrounds and represent districts in four different states, but this week the four Democratic congresswomen of color known as "The Squad" have been making headlines together after President Donald Trump launched a racist attack on them on Sunday.
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In the letter to Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger, Thompson cited a string of racist tweets from President Donald Trump in recent days aimed at four highly visible Democratic freshman congresswomen of color as his reason for requesting the hearing.
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" Earlier this month, Trump -- in racist language that was later condemned by a House resolution -- told the four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow freshmen congresswomen -- known as "the Squad" -- have been engaged in a personal and public feud which has escalated as Trump has continued to criticize them in an effort to paint the Democratic Party as far-left.
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Trump's bet Trump, who kept up his attacks against the congresswomen for a third straight day Tuesday, is clearly signaling that he will use race and the haunted, blood-soaked politics that it invokes as an anchor of his reelection bid.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his efforts to brand four progressive congresswomen as the new face of the Democratic Party, its presidential front-runner, Joe Biden, has been quietly reminding voters in Iowa there remains a middle ground.
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After posting a series of racist tweets about four Democratic Congresswomen on Sunday, the president is now attending rallies where the crowd openly chants "send her back" — a grim echo of a line from one of the president's own tweets.
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Though polling shows that a large majority of public disapproves of his racist statements about the Democratic congresswomen and that he's more unpopular with women than with men, he knows that it could also fire up his base to turn out.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday Israel's decision to block a visit to the country by Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib was "deeply disappointing" and called on it to reverse the move.
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President Donald Trump is currently embroiled in a controversy over a number of racist tweets he posted Sunday attacking a group of progressive congresswomen of color — but one his key allies in Congress thinks the tweets were more narcissistic than racist.
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Trump continued firing off tweets and retweets after his attack on the freshman congresswomen, sharing 22 retweets and tweeting "we are getting it done anyway" in a quote tweet of a supporter saying he shouldn't have to defend himself from attacks.
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Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff on Monday became the first White House official to speak publicly about President Donald Trump's racist tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to "go back" to the "crime infested" countries they came from.
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"Trump doubled down Monday, tweeting: "When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.
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"Trump's tweets on Sunday were aimed at "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who "came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).
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In the same way, the Green New Deal hotly debated in Washington — advocated by a notable sisterhood of congresswomen — embodies a vision and values powered from the ground up by local leaders who are creating change, rather than asking for it.
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Trump, who was also criticized over the weekend for telling the Somali American lawmaker and three other congresswomen of color to "go back" their home countries, sought to distance himself from the controversy by disavowing the chants later on Thursday.
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Ultimately, it is this very "only in America" quality of these two congresswomen -- one who has risen from her refugee camp origins and the other who has overcome a childhood of hardship and penury -- that will likely endear them to Americans.
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That would give the party around the same number of Republican women in the House that they currently have, though if there are fewer Republicans overall next Congress, congresswomen could make up a slightly larger percentage of the entire conference.
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JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday barred U.S. Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from making a planned trip to Israel, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump called on his ally not to let them in.
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John LewisJohn LewisCummings invites Trump to visit Baltimore House Democrat knocks Trump's Cummings tweet: 'This guy is a terrible, terrible human being' George Wallace's daughter: 'I saw Daddy a lot' during 2016 election MORE (D-Ga.) and four progressive minority congresswomen.
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Democrats last month had passed a resolution through the House condemning Trump for telling a group of four minority congresswomen to "go back" to their countries, although all four are U.S. citizens and three were born in the United States.
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Trump's attacks on Cummings, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers, and the majority-black district he represents have renewed allegations of racism against the president that resurfaced after he told four minority congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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Read more:Trudeau slams Trump's racist remarks to progressive congresswomen: 'That is not how we do things in Canada'11 mind-blowing facts about Canada's economyInside the 20-day manhunt for 2 Canadian teens police believe went on a brutal killing spree
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other prominent progressive congresswomen, he's since somewhat faded from the spotlight and taken a back seat to Biden and Warren publicly feuding with each other over Warren's wealth tax — even though Sanders has proposed a similar policy.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE (I-Vt.) earlier this fall, while the fourth member of the "squad" of progressive freshman congresswomen, Rep.
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The White House and Trump's defenders have argued that the tweets, which urged several congresswomen including Omar to "go back" to the "places" that they came from was not racist despite Omar being the only one targeted who was born abroad.
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House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) and the Democratic leadership quickly came to the defense of the four congresswomen.
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This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat..... The four congresswomen appeared for an interview on "CBS This Morning" to continue to push back on criticism from Trump and others in the GOP.
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This is, after all, a man who has insisted on putting babies and children in what amount to fetid jails, who likely obstructed justice and who uses his massive platform and immense power to hurl racist slurs at congresswomen of color.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren announced on Friday that her presidential campaign will be chaired by a diverse group of congresswomen elected in 2018 in a record-breaking wave of women who helped Democrats retake the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Billing themselves as "the real squad," — a play on the four Democratic freshman congresswomen known as "the squad" — the group includes a former governor, a comedian, a pop singer, a former Marine, an "angel mom" and an author and motivational speaker.
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" In his tweet, Moore directly referenced Trump's attack last month on Omar and 3 other American congresswomen of color, in which he said they should "go back" and "fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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Conservation can show the way Democrats call on Pompeo to restore funding to Gaza Democratic congresswomen wear white to Trump's address in honor of suffrage movement MORE (D-Mich.) and Jeff FortenberryJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FortenberryWhere do we go from here?
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And I think if Sandy Hook or Stoneman Douglas happened tomorrow, I am not sure if many congressmen — congresswomen — today would do anything unless it was their own child or their own loved one who was taken by gun violence.
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Byrne also targeted Kaepernick for his protests when he would kneel during the national anthem before games as a demonstration against racial inequality in the U.S. Byrne also called out "the squad," the nickname for progressive congresswomen Omar and Reps.
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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany expressed solidarity on Friday with the four Democratic congresswomen whom President Trump told to "go back" to the countries they came from, saying the remarks ran counter to her impression of what makes America strong.
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When they got to talking, these five would-be congresswomen realized that they had a lot in common, despite being from different parts of the country: they all had careers in national security they were trying to parlay into elected office.
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When the president does things that make that impossible — say, by praising racist marchers in Charlottesville or telling congresswomen of color to go back to their countries — it can force members of his party to either condemn him or condone racism.
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But inconveniently, just a few hours earlier, President Trump had let loose with tweets calling for four freshman congresswomen of color to "go back" to the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from, throwing an awkward wrench into the messaging.
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But inconveniently, just a few hours earlier, President Trump had let loose with tweets calling for four freshman congresswomen of color to "go back" to the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from, throwing an awkward wrench into the messaging.
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A leading voice in the Democrats' progressive wing, Ms. Omar is also a prominent critic of President Trump, and in July 2019, she was one of four congresswomen who he said should "go back" to the countries they came from.
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The freshman congresswoman has previously spoken about death threats she's received since taking office and President Trump told her to "go back" to where she came from in a racist tweet that targeted 3 other progressive congresswomen of color this July.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been "singling out" freshman congresswomen of color — the latest charge in a growing rift between the leader of the party in the chamber and the high-profile progressive freshman.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having her head shoved down in Donald Trump's crotch; another one doctored to make her appear to be engaging in oral sex with a migrant; and agents suggesting someone throw a burrito at Latina congresswomen visiting a migrant holding facility.
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Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of a group of four congresswomen of color whom he last Sunday admonished on Twitter to "go back" to the countries they came from (Omar is a Somali refugee; the other three women were born in America).
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The big picture: The congresswomen say HHS is in violation of a law passed last year that says members of Congress can't be prevented from entering "any U.S. facility used for maintaining custody of or otherwise housing unaccompanied alien children" for oversight purposes.
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The New York Times posted an editorial Wednesday night that invoked a debunked 2011 theory that a map circulated by Sarah Palin inspired a shooter to fire gunshots outside of an Arizona grocery store, striking and critically injuring then Congresswomen Gabby Giffords.
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" All four congresswomen are citizens; three were born in the US. Twitter's (TWTR) policy on hateful conduct prohibits "targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.
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He has repeatedly revealed himself as a lawless president, most recently in his tweets of July 14 directed against four freshmen Democratic congresswomen, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
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" Trump continued his attacks Monday morning, calling for the "Radical Left Congresswomen," who he again did not name, to "apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the office of the President" for what he called "their horrible & disgusting actions.
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Omar, who along with three other minority congresswomen known as "the squad" was recently criticized by the President in racist terms, was referring to chants of "send her back" that broke out last week at a rally hosted by Trump in North Carolina.
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At a Wednesday night rally in North Carolina, President Donald Trump called four progressive congresswomen of color "hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down," and repeated his request that they leave the US. Trump singled out Rep.
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"Trump also tweeted that he was "sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements," effectively siding with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the infighting that has escalated between her and the four freshman congresswomen nicknamed the "Squad.
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Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said in a statement that Trump "was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from ... we should defeat their ideas on the merits, not on the basis of their ancestry."
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The Republican president, in a series of Twitter posts, directly tied his criticism of Representative Elijah Cummings and Sharpton as well as his ongoing attacks on four racial and ethnic minority Democratic congresswomen dubbed the "squad" to his 2020 re-election bid.
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Sponsored by Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2017 or REPEAL seeks to bring laws in line with current science and public health goals.
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Trump called immigration along the southern border an "invasion" six times in seven months: once in November and December each, and twice in January and again in June, all before telling four congresswomen of color to go back to where they came from.
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"It's important to note that the President's words [yesterday], telling four American Congresswomen of color 'go back to your own country,' is hallmark language of white supremacists," tweeted Ocasio-Cortez, one of four freshmen lawmakers at whom the comments were apparently directed.
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All four congresswomen are U.S. citizens and members of minority groups, and three were born in the U.S. ....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
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"That Greenville rally in North Carolina — those chants of 'send her back' were absolutely chilling ... That's Nuremberg to me," Democratic 2020 candidate Beto O'Rourke told an audience in August, referring to Trump's racist demand that progressive congresswomen of color leave their own country.
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Both congresswomen have long been critical of Israel, and were the first U.S. legislators to endorse the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led effort to cut ties with Israeli businesses while sanctioning the nation for human-rights abuses of Palestinians.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday defiantly responded to President Donald Trump's continued attacks on her and other minority Democratic congresswomen, calling him out for the various sexual assault allegations made against him and his boasts on the infamous 2005 "Access Hollywood" video.
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"We want to be abundantly clear: this is not a rebuke of federal workers or those who depend on the services they provide, but a rejection of the hateful policies, priorities, and rhetoric of the Trump Administration," the congresswomen said in their statement.
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We ask them for ideas and pledged to them and I can speak for all of the senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen, all the people in this room that are involved in this decision, that we will act, we will do something.
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LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May thinks the language used by U.S. President Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday about a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen was "completely unacceptable", her spokesman said on Monday.
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" The voice mail message to Ms. Tlaib, one of two Muslim congresswomen, was filled with racist and Islamophobic language: "There's people like me out there, millions and millions of us who hate you," Mr. Kless said, "for what you done on 9/11.
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Why it matters: As Axios' Jonathan Swan and I previously reported, Trump has privately been telling advisers that he thinks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should use an anti-boycott law to bar the two freshman congresswomen over their support for the BDS movement.
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It is strange to live in a time when the then prime minister of the UK, Theresa May, had to publicly admonish the US president for racist comments, like President Trump's tweet that four congresswomen should "go back" where they came from.
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" This month, he attacked four female Democratic congresswomen, all women of color, saying they should "go back" to the countries they came from and then standing by as attendees of a campaign rally, jeering one of the lawmakers, chanted, "Send her back!
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When he then named in particular two Jewish congressmen and four congresswomen of color — Jerry Nadler of New York, Adam Schiff of California and the quartet that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — the racist connotations of the "savage" slur buzzed.
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AOC, a prominent member of the progressive freshman "Squad" of congresswomen, took to Twitter on Wednesday to point out the irony of President Trump's highly-criticized decision to put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
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Congresswomen who spoke with us also said they see themselves as bringing distinctive perspectives to the work they do by placing issues related to women's lives on the congressional agenda and being a voice for the voiceless in the halls of Congress.
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Congresswomen wore white in the past as well as this year as a reference not only to recognize past women's rights, but also as a reminder to the current administration that they take a strong stand against perceived injustice toward women (here).
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And who can forget the President's words this summer when he told newly elected congresswomen to "go back" to the countries they came from -- even though three were born in the US and the fourth became a naturalized citizen nearly 20 years ago.
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It began on September 25th when Naga Munchetty, a breakfast-show presenter, was rebuked by a BBC tribunal for speaking on air of her fury at Donald Trump's insistence that four non-white congresswomen should "go back" to where they came from.
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" The chant followed racist tweets from the president attacking the Democratic congresswomen — Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib — in which he said the four should "go back" and "help fix the totally broken and crime infested" countries "from which they came.
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During Trump's rally on Wednesday evening in Greenville, North Carolina — following two days in which Trump doubled and tripled down on the racist attacks he made against Omar and other Democratic congresswomen of color — Trump fans expressed their full-throated agreement with the president.
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Reality check: Trump didn't specifically name anyone he thinks should "go back," but of the 4 progressive Democratic congresswomen in headlines for clashing with Pelosi — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley — only Omar is an immigrant to the United States.
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Washington (CNN)A group of Republican women from Dallas say they fully support President Donald Trump after he told four progressive congresswomen of color they should "go back" to their "crime infested" countries and all of them agreed that Trump's attack was not racist.
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The all-day event, which also included remarks from the heads of the FBI and Treasury Department, came as President Donald Trump launched a new volley of attacks on a group of progressive congresswomen who he said have used "racist" and anti-Semitic language.
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Since President Donald Trump tweeted that four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe" should "go back to where" they "came from" last Sunday, the President has insisted his comments were not racist.
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This is especially vital since white nationalists know exactly who she is and are probably overjoyed the President retweeted her -- much the same way many of these bigots praised Trump's attacks this week on four Democratic congresswomen, as documented by the Anti-Defamation League.
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Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama praised members of his administration for "continuing to fight for an America that's better" after nearly 150 African Americans signed an op-ed slamming President Donald Trump for his recent racist attacks targeting four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color.
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So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly...... ....it is done.
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" The newly unearthed audio comes weeks after President Donald Trump used racist language to attack four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color, implying they weren't American and suggesting they "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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Answering Dickerson's call, the group of congresswomen has taken the lead in a national conversation about the crisis of America's missing black and Hispanic children, demanding that the FBI and Justice Department immediately dedicate funds and commit to policies that will address the problem.
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The rise of "the squad," as Ocasio-Cortez's small group of four minority congresswomen is known, has sometimes appeared to strain Pelosi's patience as she works to keep House Democrats unified and to restrain demands from many lawmakers to start impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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Trump doubled down on his original tweets later Sunday and on Monday morning, accusing the congresswomen of hating Israel "with a true and unbridled passion" and charging that they "have made Israel feel abandoned" by the US, a refrain Graham repeated on the show.
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Read more: Trump doubled down in his attacks on 4 Democratic congresswomen of color, calling their actions 'horrible' and 'disgusting'"They're anti-Semitic, they talk about the Israeli state as if they're a bunch of thugs, not victims of the entire region," Graham said.
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"Regardless of whether his tweets are racist or not — I'm not saying they are or not — he is getting the media to make these extremely liberal, socialist, foolish congresswomen the face of the Democratic Party," said Terry Sullivan, a frequent Trump critic who managed Sen.
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But after Israel announced that they would let her in, Tlaib incidated that she would not make the trip, saying that Trump had also the two Congresswomen should not be let in, saying Israel would "show great weakness" if it allowed the lawmakers to enter.
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Trump has in recent months accused Tlaib, Omar and two other first-term Democratic congresswomen of color - dubbed "the Squad" - of hostility to Israel in a barrage condemned by critics as racist and widely seen as a way to drum up of votes for 2020.
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Read more: 'The Simpsons' predicted Daenerys Targaryen's big plot twist on 'Game of Thrones' 2 years agoBut he proves to be no match for the animated congresswomen, as they chase him around the White House and sing about why they hope to impeach him.
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