Hillary Clinton, who made history as the first female US presidential candidate, said it was time to pass the torch.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the Democratic National Convention that Kamala Harris could finally become the first female president and break the “tallest and strongest glass ceiling” in America. he said.
Clinton said she broke her “glass ceiling” as the first woman to win the presidential nomination from a major party. “If an obstacle is broken for one of us, it opens the way for all of us,” he repeated in his speech at the convention eight years ago.
Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman to run for president in 2016, but ultimately lost the election to Donald Trump. Now that the Democratic Party is once again nominating a woman to lead the White House, she says it’s time to pass the torch.
“Together we have opened many cracks in the highest and strongest glass ceiling. “Behind the glass ceiling, Kamala Harris is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States,” Clinton said.
Speaking to the BBC, the politician said women and delegates face a number of barriers both when running for public office and serving their communities. When Sen.-elect Mallory McMorrow of Michigan ran for president in 2018, she became interested in a woman from the district who planned to have a child with him.
“He looked me in the face and said this is not a job for mothers,” McMorrow says. She became the second woman in Michigan history to give birth in office.
During the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her appearance, her dress, and even her voice. According to Deloris Hudson, a delegate from the state of Ohio, voters judged Clinton not only on her personal information, work as a senator and US secretary of state, but also on her relationship with her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
Hudson said many women criticized Hillary for not ending the relationship after learning of her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016 served as a catalyst for change. She sparked women’s marches across the country and a record number of female candidates to run for office in 2018. Women currently make up 28.5 percent of the House of Representatives, up from 19.1 percent in 2017.
