By Alexi McCammond | Axios
Single white women were the crucial swing voter for Democrats in 2016 — the first year in which the party nominated a woman for president and in what could be the last year there’s just a single woman running for the nation’s highest office.
The state of play: The #MeToo movement showed the world why there needs to be more women leaders. President Trump unleashed a wave of women who are motivated to run for office in opposition to him and the GOP agenda. There are already at least five Democratic women rumored to be considering a 2020 run, so it’s likely that women will be a leading voice in crafting the party’s agenda in 2020.
Why it matters: Women are proving to be the most powerful political force in the country right now. Democrats are already crushing it with women, advancing them to congressional general elections all across the country. And, as former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told Axios: “In 2016 the Democratic Party rang a bell that can’t be unrung when it nominated a woman.”
