Is America ready for a Madam President? Is Kamala Harris better placed than Hillary Clinton to get there? The answer to both – with caveats – is yes.
On election night in 2016, I stood expectantly beneath a giant glass ceiling at a convention centre in New York that Hillary Clinton was figuratively expected to shatter. The former First Lady could have peered up at the heavens from the podium positioned for her victory speech – if ever she had got to deliver it.
My hunch has long been that Clinton lost the 2016 election in 1992. That was the year Bill Clinton first ran for president, when she was forced to introduce herself to the American people in appalling circumstances: ainterview, broadcast ahead of the Super Bowl, in which the couple fielded questions about his serial philandering.,” she said, a statement that drew a stinging rebuke from the country and western star and which haunted Clinton for decades.
Kavanaugh ended up on the Supreme Court. Roe v Wade ended up being overturned, which Trump has bragged was his doing. But this setback for reproductive rights puts wind in Harris’ sails. Before stepping down, Joe Biden faced criticism for failing to dramatise the issue of abortion. Harris is seen by abortion-rights groups as a passionate advocate, ideally placed to motivate more young women, especially, to vote.
In another key difference, Harris is downplaying her gender, and not drawing attention to the historic nature of her candidacy. There’s no equivalent of Clinton’s “I’m with her” slogan. For her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, Harris wore a navy-blue pantsuit rather than suffragette white, as Clinton had done eight years previously.
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