Group looks to GOP women lawmakers to help boost COVID-19 vaccinations
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Washington — An organization that aims to elect Republican women to office is launching a new campaign aimed at encouraging unvaccinated Americans to get their shots, focusing on the efforts by GOP women to push vaccinations to protect against COVID-19.
The campaign from the group Winning for Women, to be amplified by female Republican lawmakers on social media, centers around Congresswoman Julia Letlow, a Republican from Louisiana whose husband, Luke, died from complications of COVID-19 in December.
Luke Letlow was elected to Congress to represent Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, but passed away before taking office. Julia Letlow ran in the special election to fill her late husband's seat and with her win became the state's first Republican woman elected to Congress. In an interview with "CBS Mornings" in August, Letlow recalled how she and her husband had prayed for the vaccines to become available, but he died before the shots were rolled out to the broader public.
