Nancy Pelosi denounced a Republican House candidate from Michigan who once argued that women don't possess "the characteristics necessary to govern" and supported an attempt to repeal the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee backed that candidate in the GOP primary because they thought he was too far right to win the election.

CNN reported this week that John Gibbs made the comments when he was a student at the university.

John Gibbs faces three reporters who are taking pictures of him with their cellphones.
John Gibbs speaks to reporters after voting in Byron Township, Mich., on Aug. 2. (Sarah Rice/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Society for the Critique of Feminism was founded by a man who believed that the women's speach movement had made the United States into a "totalitarian state".

The United States has suffered as a result of women's speach, according to its now-dead website.

Pelosi said what he's saying is outrageous when asked by reporters about it. There is an insult to women's intelligence that exists in many forms around here.

The current push to ban abortion is similar to those ideas by the California Democrat.

Pelosi said she hears people say that women shouldn't be able to make their own reproductive health decisions. It's a sign of disrespect.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, looking indignant and with her hand raised in the air, at the microphone.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

One of the Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2020 was defeated in the GOP primary.

During the primary, the DCCC spent $435,000 on an advertisement to support Gibbs because they thought he would be easier to beat than Meijer.

The race to represent Michigan's Third Congressional District has a Democratic candidate.