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Where Are All the Good Men? Conservative Women Rail against the GOP

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With less than two weeks until Election Day the country is divided, the Republican party is divided, even the Church is divided.

But there's another division that's becoming even more evident the closer we get to Nov. 8: the gender gap.

Men and women within the Republican party are taking sides over accusations of Donald Trump's mistreatment of women. An increasing number of conservative women calling out the leaders of their party for defending a candidate who faces several accusations of sexual assault.

"Ever since Trump announced his candidacy 17 months ago, it's been like watching political body snatchers take over the party, replacing previously respectable men with dead-eyed zombies who readily salute 'Mr. Trump,'" conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter wrote in a recent op-ed for The Washington Post.

"If the GOP has truly convinced itself that openly engaging in sexual assault fantasies is something normal that men do among one another, I have a suggestion. Relocate the Republican National Committee headquarters into a men's-only locker room. Eliminate all pretenses of wanting to let women in," Carpenter writes.

S.E. Cupp, conservative commentator and author of Losing our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity, says it's been a very disappointing year and a half.

"After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze," Cupp writes in a New York Times op-ed.

"When women flee the Republican Party in the coming years, no autopsy will be necessary. The explanation is all too clear," Cupp warns.

Experts at reaching the female vote have the same concern. They worry that Trump's candidacy alone has alienated women from the Republican party for years to come.

"I think we'll see a lot of women walk away from the party over this," said Katie Packer, who was former GOP candidate Mitt Romney's deputy campaign manager. "What you're seeing is 20 years, 30 years of frustration coming together and really, really compounded in the last couple of weeks."

In her op-ed, Carpenter admits to being one of the many women left behind by the Republican party. She issues a staggering warning: "The GOP is about to learn a hard lesson when it comes to the women's vote: defend us or lose us."
 

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Caitlin Burke serves as National Security Correspondent and a general assignment reporter for CBN News. She has also hosted the CBN News original podcast, The Daily Rundown. Some of Caitlin’s recent stories have focused on the national security threat posed by China, America’s military strength, and vulnerabilities in the U.S. power grid. She joined CBN News in July 2010, and over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to cover stories both domestically and abroad. Caitlin began her news career working as a production assistant in Richmond, Virginia, for the NBC affiliate WWBT