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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Gino Spocchia

Republican House candidate accused of misogyny for remarks against women’s suffrage: ‘Oh hell no’

John Gibbs for MI-03 / Twitter

John Gibbs, a Republican running for a House seat in Michigan in November, has been condemned online after he was revealed to have complained about women having the right to vote while a student at Stanford.

On Wednesday, the 43-year-old was accused of saying that Americans had “suffered” since women achieved the right to vote in 1920. He apparently made the remark during part of a “think tank” he established while a student at Stanford University in the early 2000s, CNN first reported.

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