Candidates turn tables on Dem pitch to female voters as party tries to ‘pigeonhole’ women

A new wave of Republican women running for competitive Congress aims to chip away at Democrats’ long-standing advantage with female voters — and flip key seats that could determine control of the House in November.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, one of those candidates, Laurie Buckhout, a former cattle rancher, U.S. Army veteran and mother, criticized the Democratic Party for trying to “box” female voters into one category.

“The Democrats are trying too hard to confine us women to a certain role while they still fail to define what a woman is,” she joked.

She believes that despite the rhetoric, Democrats are “really out of touch when it comes to women voters.”

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From left: Republican congressional candidates Laurie Buckhout, NC, Tiffany Burress, NJ, Jessica Steinmann, TX, and Barb Regnitz, Ind. (Courtesy of A Co Campaigns. Courtesy of Laurie Buckhout, Tiffany Burress, Jessica Steinmann and Barb Regnitz Campaigns)

“They’re trying to appropriate this genre and put it in a box,” she continued. “‘This is how you’re going to vote. Don’t tell your husband. This is how you’re going to think.’ Republicans don’t do that. »

In this midterm election, Buckhout is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Don Davis in North Carolina’s Congressional District 1. The district spans the northeastern corner of the state, from the Virginia border to the Atlantic coast. After narrowly losing to Davis in the 2024 election, Buckhout’s campaign has already gained significant momentum this time around. She defeated four other Republican candidates in the March 3 primaries, and just this week she was boosted by the support of President Donald Trump.

As the dominant party in an off-year midterm cycle, many expect the Republicans to be defeated at the polls in November. Buckhout thinks it will be a very different story in North Carolina, however. With the Republican Party barely clinging to a slim majority in the House of Representatives, every seat counts.

“I can tell you that the people of North Carolina, especially eastern North Carolina, want to live their lives with minimal government interference, they don’t want big government stepping in, telling them how to live their lives, what to do, taking their money out of their pockets to pay more and more taxes for programs that they don’t need and didn’t vote for,” she said. “So I can tell you that we are very pleased with the fact that this is a Republican election, that we are winning this election and adding another seat to the House.”

Buckhout isn’t the only Republican candidate with a good chance of flipping a blue district red this year.

In one of the GOP’s most targeted districts, Carrie Buck, a former school principal and self-described minivan mom, is seeking to unseat Rep. Dina Titus in Nevada’s Congressional District 1 in Las Vegas. Since the latest Federal Election Commission filings, Buck has significantly outperformed Titus, signaling the incumbent president’s vulnerability.

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Left: Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev. Right: Nevada State Senator Carrie Buck, running for Congress. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images; Campaign for Carrie Buck)

Buck told Fox News Digital that after serving in Congress since 2013, Titus had “had his chance and Nevada families are still waiting for the results.”

“I spent 30 years in classrooms, teaching, running schools and working to solve problems. Meanwhile, Dina Titus was in public service, unable and unwilling to address the challenges Nevadans face: rising inflation, skyrocketing crime rates, an open border and failing schools,” she said.

On the East Coast, Tiffany Burress, a New Jersey lawyer new to the political scene, is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Nellie Pou, considered vulnerable.

If the GOP could win the seat, it would be a huge boon to retaining the majority.

“Voters are ready for something different, and that’s how I know we’re going to win,” Burress told Fox News.

She hit Pou, saying she had “spent decades living off taxpayers’ dime” and that she “put extreme progressive agendas ahead of our district’s priorities” by voting with the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nearly 94 percent of the time.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Republicans are trying to maintain their majority this midterm election cycle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Likewise, Barb Regnitz, in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, is running to flip a long-held Democratic seat currently held by Rep. Frank Mrvan.

Regnitz, a former software engineer and current Porter County commissioner, told Fox News Digital that “for nearly 100 years, Republicans have been powerless to stop the far-left’s failed policies that have led to declining incomes, industrial hardship and increasingly dangerous communities right here in Northwest Indiana.”

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“I’m running for Congress because I believe our district deserves serious, principled leadership focused on results, not rhetoric,” she said.

In Texas, another Republican, Jessica Steinmann, is fighting to retain a Republican seat north of Houston vacated by Rep. Morgan Luttrell, who chose not to run again.

Steinmann worked in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department during his first term as director of the Office for Victims of Crime.

She told Fox News Digital that she is running for Congress “because the next two years of President Trump’s administration are crucial for our country.”

“I was proud to serve in the first Trump administration, where I saw first-hand what strong America First leadership can accomplish,” she said, adding, “I am confident this message will lead us to victory in November.”