participating. a lot of people grow up and think all of those politicians are all crooks or you can t trust anybody. i m not saying i never thought that but i took from her that if you want to make a positive change in the world, that you got to get up. you have to get active. you have to do something. the blessing of growing up in the generation that i m growing up in and a younger generation is that we could actually run and win. my mom ran for city council when she was 23 years old in san antonio. none of them won because of the times. 30 years later, i became one of the youngest city council members ever elected there at 26 bu because of the progress that her and so many other people had helped make possible. you re building on a beautiful legacy. i think you re a 100% right. as the country gets to know you better, it s a blessing for all
was just the beginning. every single town i go to, whether it s speaking for planned parenthood or whatever the event is, there is a new women s group starting, just out of whole cloth. meeting at their separate parties, meeting at their book club and they re taking action. they totally understand they can do better than who is in office now. we can already see an effect, and that is this fleeing for the exits by republicans in the congress, including these senior chairs of committees who are saying, i m not going to try to run for reelection in this environment. absolutely. what s funny, when my mom ran for governor in texas, she was always frustrated that women waited until they had all the right degrees at the right time. i think women now are looking at who is in office, looking at who is in congress and saying, you know what? i could do a better job than who is in there. i think there are 140 women who have filed to run for congress. it s historic. and paul ryan, he hasn t s
and that is this fleeing for the exits by republicans in the congress, including these senior chairs of committees who are saying, i m not going to try to run for reelection in this environment. absolutely. what s funny, when my mom ran for governor in texas, she was always frustrated that women waited until they had all the right degrees at the right time. i think women now are looking at who is in office, looking at who is in congress and saying, you know what? i could do a better job than who is in there. i think there are 140 women who have filed to run for congress. it s historic. and paul ryan, he hasn t said it, but it looks like he will not run for reelection this year. he knows where this wave is headed. i happen to know some women in kenosha, wisconsin who are ready for that race. i think women will be competitive in office more than ever before. we have to stop saying that, because these polls are telling us women will be competitive in races so now we can expect it.
the republican national committee has a new face with a new name, ronda romney. my mom ran for senate and my dad had run for attorney general. and i thought i ve got to go get into party politics so i can figure out how to win and get my family members across the finish line. unfortunately we didn t have any romneys on the ballot. romney mcdaniel did more than just help donald trump get across the finish line. she delivered the state to republicans for the first time in 30 years. i went to his very first rally after he announced his candidacy, and there were 3,000 people there. i ve never seen that for a candidate during a primary and obviously my uncle ran for president. that you think was mitt romney, the last republican nominee for president who lost michigan to barack obama in 2012
side of it at a young age. i was 19 when my mom ran for senate, and it was a pretty tough race. you walk away and you think i don t know if i want to be part of that world. part of reason i got involved is i saw a teacher get laid off in our school and we were in a budget crisis in our state and i thought this is . so that was your ah-ha moment? that was my ah-ha moment. we did it! you re the first woman to run this joint in a long time. in a long time. in a generation. so what do you think it means that you, a woman, is running the rnc? i think is signals that the republican party is a party for women. for a long time we ve been put to the side as if we re single-issue voters or we just a special interest group. certainly in the republican party, we need to do a better job reaching out to women.