Trumping Politics as Usual

In many elections, candidates frame their appeals in gendered ways¿they compete, for instance, over who is more "masculine." In the 2016 presidential election, however, the choice between the first major-party female candidate and a man who exhibited a persistent pattern of misogyny made gender more prominent than in any previous election in the United States. This book explores how the Trump and Clinton campaigns used gender as a political weapon, and how thepresidential race changed the ways in which House and Senate campaigns were waged in 2016 and 2018.