Midterm Messages: Women Are Owning 2018, But So Is Trump
The dominant storylines from the 2018 primaries so far have been that women have dominated and the president has had his own relative success — and a big impact on GOP congressional candidates.
It's been the story since Trump was elected.
Dueling, massive crowds showed up in Washington in January 2017 — on one day, supporters of the newly inaugurated president and the next, an enormous gathering of opponents for the Women's March, with largely women leading the resistance.
A year-and-a-half later, that dynamic has played out in the early contests of this year's crucial midterm primaries. President Trump and the allegiance he's inspired among his base, as well as the outrage he has stirred on the left — particularly among Democratic women — have been two of the dominant storylines of 2018.
And now we enter the busiest stretch of the primary season,
