CNN's Jake Tapper revealed on Tuesday that Republicans have privately admitted to him that their party has a problem electing female candidates.

During a panel discussion on "The Lead," Tapper played a couple of clips from a recent CNN interview with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in which she argued that a female president will be elected, though maybe not in her lifetime. Melanie Mason, the California bureau chief for Politico, argued that the prospect of electing a female president w