Warren puts gender at the center of her final campaign push

GRIMES, Iowa - Three years after women flooded the streets of American cities to protest President Donald Trump's election, two years since a record number of women ran for Congress and helped Democrats win control of the House, and one year after a record number of women decided to run for president, the Democratic Party is still embroiled in a debate about whether female candidates are up to the job of beating President Donald Trump.

Just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has been a front-runner but consistently dogged by doubts about her electability, has made gender a central element of her final campaign push.

Through most of the campaign year, Warren's message has been built mostly around class, not gender. But starting in the run-up to last week's televised debate in Iowa, she