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Tenants rights groups press lawmakers to rein in corporate landlords; Harris to rally in Atlanta; Trump targets Biden's Supreme Court proposal; NM advocacy group: more climate change infrastructure needed; MS could benefit from eliminating medical debt from credit reports.

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Biden proposes reforms to SCOTUS, to praise from union and reproductive rights groups. A lawsuit challenging partisan gerrymandering in South Carolina goes to the state Supreme Court, and Gen Z voters seem to be surging onto the rolls.

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There's a gap between how rural and urban folks feel about the economy, Colorado's 'Rural is Rad' aims to connect outdoor businesses, more than a dozen of Maine's infrastructure sites face repeated flooding, and chocolate chip cookies rock August.

Harris proves exception as fewer women seek office in 2024

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Monday, July 29, 2024   

Earlier this year, Mexico elected the first woman president in the country's 200-year history, and Kamala Harris hopes to duplicate that milestone in the U.S.

But a group that studies how women fare in elections says it's still an uphill battle.

Harris already is America's first female vice president, and the first Black and South Asian American to hold the office.

Kelly Dittmar - director of research and data for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University - said in addition to gender and race attacks, Harris will face criticism for her style, with some claiming she's not presidential.

"We've also seen attacks on Harris' qualifications," said Dittmar, "something more common to women and especially to women of color - whose competencies are more often questioned while, for white men, they're more often assumed."

In 2020, New Mexico became the first state to elect all women of color to its House delegation.

The group included then incumbent Rep. Deb Haaland - D-Albuquerque - who now leads the Department of the Interior.

Center Director Debbie Walsh said the number of women running for federal office has fallen off nationally in both political parties.

That follows numerous successes, especially at the gubernatorial level.

"Women have been essential to flipping the most competitive seats in recent election years," said Walsh, "and women of color have been winning both statewide executive and legislative seats, in states and districts with majority white electorates."

The last two New Mexico governors have been women - Republican Susana Martinez and current Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat.

In this year's race, two of New Mexico's three U.S. House incumbents seeking re-election are women.

Support for this reporting was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.




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