'Back to our roots': Female GOP lawmakers work to win back feminism from the left

EXCLUSIVE: Female Republicans successful Congress are warring to alteration the decadeslong communicative that paints Democrats arsenic the enactment of women, hoping it transcends to important gains successful aboriginal elections.

"We’ve got to get backmost to our roots of being the enactment of women," Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital. "I don’t cognize wherefore we ever allowed the Democrats to hijack the communicative and assertion to beryllium the enactment of women. That’s bull."

Other GOP lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital astir this communicative noted that outgo of living, a cornerstone contented for Republicans successful the past election, was arsenic overmuch a women's contented arsenic anyone else's.

Republicans person besides passed respective bills since winning that predetermination that person enactment women astatine the absorption of blimpish argumentation changes connected transgender youth and borderline security.

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"You should not fto the Democrat Party archer you they’re the enactment of women if they can’t adjacent specify what a pistillate is. So we are going to proceed to beryllium beardown advocates for young women and girls, whether that’s successful nonrecreational spaces, successful bathrooms oregon successful sports," said Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, referencing a precocious passed measure keeping biologic antheral pupil athletes retired of girls' sports teams and locker rooms.

Hinson said she is "a moving ma warring for different moving moms."

"Women are oftentimes the astir important determination makers successful a household, for example. So, erstwhile I'm reasoning astir economical indicators, however are we going to get much women successful the workforce? How tin we empower much women and families? How tin we enactment much women successful sports?" Hinson posed.

Historically, Malliotakis pointed out, it was Republicans who led transition of the 19th Amendment that secured women the close to vote. She besides pointed retired that it was nether President Donald Trump that a depository dedicated to women's past was authorized.

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"President Trump authorized successful 2020 the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum. And Joe Biden did thing with it for 4 years," Malliotakis said. " "I’ve been pushing a onshore transportation for the Smithsonian women’s depository to beryllium built, and I deliberation it makes full consciousness that we would beryllium the enactment that would bash this, considering our history."

As a voting bloc, women person favored Democrats and the near successful caller history.

Democrats person besides blamed Republicans for the conservative-leaning Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, a determination that did look to construe to electoral occurrence successful the 2022 midterms.

Progressives were besides historically the biggest supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, authorities that was pushed chiefly during the second-wave feminist movement.

However, Republican women similar Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., are present arguing that bills similar hers, which would deport amerciable immigrants who perpetrate enactment crimes against women and different Americans, are what it takes to support women.

"MAGA is the caller feminist," Mace wrote connected X this month.

Additionally, Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., 1 of the fewer Republican women successful the 119th Congress' freshmen class, pointed retired that her ain communicative was a testament to GOP meritocracy.

"I was the largest vote-getter successful my full authorities retired of anybody, arsenic a woman, arsenic the archetypal congresswoman successful our state. So I deliberation much than thing else, radical privation folks who are primed for the job, who are competent and ready," Fedorchak said.

"The outgo of everything, making ends meet, helping women negociate their aggregate roles, getting authorities retired of their lives, helping reenforce the relation of parents…these are things that are women’s issues."