A new wave of in competitive congressional races is aiming to chip away at Democrats long-held advantage with female voters â and flip key seats that could determine control of the House this November.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, one of these candidates, Laurie Buckhout, a former cattle rancher, U.S. Army veteran and mother, knocked the for trying to “pigeonhole” female voters into a single category.
“The Democrats try way too hard to pigeonhole us women in a certain role while they still can’t define what a woman is,” she quipped.
She believes that despite the rhetoric, Democrats are “really out of touch when it comes to women voters.”
“They try to own that gender and try to stuff them in a box,” she went on. “This is how you’re going to vote. Don’t tell your husband. This is how you are going to think. Republicans don’t do that.”
This midterm election, Buckhout is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Don Davis in North Carolinas Congressional District 1. The district stretches across the northeastern corner of the state from the border with Virginia to the Atlantic coast. After narrowly losing to Davis in the 2024 election, Buckhouts campaign has already garnered significant momentum this time around. She defeated a field of four other Republican candidates in the March 3 primary and, just this week, was further bolstered by an endorsement from President .
As the dominant party in an off-year midterm cycle, many expect that Republicans will take a beating at the ballot box this November. Buckhout, however, thinks it will be a very different story in North Carolina. With the GOP barely grasping onto a razor-thin majority in the , every seat matters.
“I can tell you the people of , especially eastern North Carolina, they want to live their lives with a minimum of government interference, they don’t want big government leaning in, telling them how to live their life, what to do, taking their money out of their pockets for more and more taxes for programs that they don’t need and they didn’t vote for,” she said. “So, I can tell you that we feel very good about this being a Republican election, taking this, adding another seat to the House.”
Buckhout is not the only female Republican candidate who stands a good shot at flipping a blue district red this year.
In one of the GOPs top targeted districts, Carrie Buck, a former school principal and self-described minivan mom, is angling to unseat Rep. Dina Titus in Congressional District 1 in Las Vegas. As of the latest Federal Election Commission filings, Buck has significantly outraised Titus, further signaling the incumbents vulnerability.
Buck told Fox News Digital that after serving in Congress since 2013, Titus has “had her chance, and Nevada families are still waiting for results.” Â
“I spent 30 years in classrooms â teaching, running schools, and working to fix problems. During that same time, Dina Titus was in public office, unable and unwilling to address the challenges Nevadans face: rising inflation, soaring crime rates, an open border, and failing schools,” she said.
On the East Coast, Tiffany Burress, a attorney who is a newcomer to the political scene, is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Nellie Pou, who is considered vulnerable.
If the GOP could pick up the seat, it would be a huge boon in retaining the majority.
“Voters are ready for something different, and thats how I know were going to win,” Burress told Fox News.
She knocked Pou, saying she has “spent decades living on the taxpayers’ dime,” and “puts extreme progressive agendas ahead of the priorities of our district” by voting with the likes of Rep. nearly 94 percent of the time.
Similarly, Barb Regnitz in Indianas first congressional district is running to flip a long-held Democratic seat currently filled by Rep. Frank Mrvan.
Regnitz, who is a former software engineer and current Porter County commi
