Women at the First Lady's Rally

A group of women protest at First Lady Abbey Bartlet's rally by donning aprons and brandishing rolling pins. The newspaper photograph of their stunt reaches C.J. Cregg aboard Air Force One. She marks it as an optics threat during the Ritchie campaign fight. Their use of domestic props highlights gendered political tensions. President Bartlet dismisses their uproar over Abbey's 'wife and mother' remark as irrational, laughing it off with her in the White House residence.