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Experts say the 2020 election cycle has broken 2018’s record for female candidates and includes a surge of Republican women seeking to close a partisan gender gap.
A total of 574 women have filed to run in primaries for House seats and another 58 have filed for Senate primaries, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
The numbers mark an increase of 20 percent from the 476 House candidates and 53 Senate candidates in 2018.
Research showed that female Republican candidates have nearly doubled their number from 2018, with 246 women filing to run as GOP candidates this year compared to 142 in 2018.
The survey showed 104 other those registered are incumbents running for re-election, including candidates who attracted national attention in 2018 such as Reps.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.),Abigail Spanberger(D-Va.),Ilhan Omar(D-Minn.),Ayanna Pressley(D-Mass.) andRashida Tlaib(D-Mich.).
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