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Republican men in Congress “aren’t as sensitive as they ought to be” when it comes to running against female candidates and appealing to female voters, Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerConservative leader: Next House chaplain should have a family House chaplain forced out by Ryan Code red for the GOP MORE (R-Ohio) said Thursday.
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The Speaker was responding to a question about an article in Politico reporting that Republican men were getting a form of sensitivity training from party leaders.
In recent elections, a number of Republican Senate candidates have torpedoed their chances by making comments decried as insensitive or outright offensive to women.
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