A top Republican pollster believes she has identified a surprising new demographic that could help the GOP in the 2026 midterms: women who wear weighted vests.

Christine Matthews, president of Bellwether Research and a veteran of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s campaigns, told Politico that potential new faction of swing voters has emerged after she began noticing large numbers of women sporting the latest wellness trend in the suburbs.

While suburban women have been cited as the key demographic in elections for years, Matthews believes this bloc can be narrowed even further to well-educated, health-conscious women who are politically engaged and, conveniently, easy to spot thanks to their weighted vests.

“The people who swing elections, it always sort of comes down—in particular in

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