{"id":2412,"date":"2016-03-26T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/26\/as-donald-trump-targets-women-republicans-say-he-could-cost-the-party-everything\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T12:45:41","slug":"as-donald-trump-targets-women-republicans-say-he-could-cost-the-party-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/26\/as-donald-trump-targets-women-republicans-say-he-could-cost-the-party-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"As Donald Trump targets women, Republicans say he could cost the party everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ab5ccdec456b4263b91f62ca23f5a662\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzI1LzhjL2FiNWNjZGVjNDU2LjFmNTc3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/1737716e\/9dd\/ab5ccdec456b4263b91f62ca23f5a662.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=As+Donald+Trump+targets+women%2C+Republicans+say+he+could+cost+the+party+everything&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F26%2Fdonald-trump-women%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F26%2Fdonald-trump-women%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Christine Matthews, a longtime Republican strategist whose work focuses on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningglassconsulting.com\/about\/\">convincing other women to vote Republican<\/a>, felt good about her party&#8217;s progress with female voters after the 2014 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans added women to their ranks in the House and Senate, and even defeated a Democratic senator in Colorado who had made the so-called &#8220;war on women&#8221; the hallmark issue of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But two years later, as GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/24\/donald-trump-ted-cruz-wives\/\">continually makes misogynistic comments<\/a> on the trail<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, Matthews\u00a0said she feels any progress made with women has been erased.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/22\/melania-trump-gq-ted-cruz\/\">Donald Trump threatens to &#8216;spill the beans&#8217; on Ted Cruz&#8217;s wife over Melania ad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/26\/donald-trump-women\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/women-s-issues\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Women S Issues<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/election-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Election 2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/donald-trump\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Donald Trump<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/ehNzD-riCpE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Matthews, a longtime Republican strategist whose work focuses on\u00a0convincing other women to vote Republican, felt good about her party&#8217;s progress with female voters after the 2014 midterm elections. 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