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California’s ‘first partner’ is wrong: It’s Dem waging war on women

California’s first lady, Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, recently accused President Donald Trump of engaging in a “war on all women.”

Though Democrats have recycled that slogan for a decade and-a-half, nothing could be further from the truth.

For starters, President Trump appointed more women to senior West Wing roles during his first administration than any other president in American history.

In 2016, he employed the first female campaign manager ever to win a presidential election, Kellyanne Conway. In his current term, Trump hired the first-ever female White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who has even adopted flexible work schedules for young moms.

However, this debate is bigger than Trump. It is a perennial fight over a false narrative that could persist long after he is out of office.

It’s time to correct the record.

There is indeed a “war on women.” However, incontrovertible statistics show it is at the hands of the Democratic Party — not the Republican Party.

There are at least a dozen ways liberal policies harm women every day — starting with the most obvious: our livelihoods.

COVID-era lockdowns imposed by Democrat leaders in deep blue states erased roughly 2 million jobs held by women. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show California and New York — led by Gov. Gavin Newsom and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — drove the largest share of those losses. 

With schools closed for nearly two years at the hands of local bureaucrats and at the urging of liberal teachers unions, many families made a practical decision: Mom stays........

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