Pelosi holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2022.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC2GMW95QV3HHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday denounced a Republican House candidate from Michigan who once argued that women don’t possess “the characteristics necessary to govern” and supported an attempt to repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
John Gibbs, who was also supported in the primary by former President Donald Trump, made the comments as a student at Stanford in the early 2000s,At Stanford, Gibbs founded the Society for the Critique of Feminism, a self-described “think tank” which contended that the women’s suffrage movement had made the United States into a “totalitarian state.”also argued that"the United States has suffered as a result of women's suffrage.
The California Democrat compared such ideas to the current push from some Republican lawmakers to ban abortion.