White men are a minority in the Democrats' 2018 class of congressional candidates

Democrats have nominated a record number of women for Congress this year — 180 candidates, versus the previous record, 120, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics — but that's just the beginning. When you add in the 133 people of color running for Congress as Democrats, "white men are in the minority in the House Democratic candidate pool," Politico reports. And, 158 Democratic candidates are running for office for the first time. Politico adds:

Republicans are running female candidates, too — 52, by Politico's count, including a first-ever Korean-American woman in California and a Latina nominee in Arizona — but their number is "dwarfed by the Democrats' totals," Politico says. And that could spell trouble for Republicans, as female candidates attract votes from suburban women, a demographic that's "not trending toward us right now," says GOP consultant Mike Noble. "Those suburban women are a key bloc that we're tracking, and they're not big fans of Trump."

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