{"id":2307122,"date":"2024-07-23T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-credits-herself-for-making-it-seem-normal-to-have-a-woman-run-for-president-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:44:30","slug":"hillary-clinton-credits-herself-for-making-it-seem-normal-to-have-a-woman-run-for-president-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-credits-herself-for-making-it-seem-normal-to-have-a-woman-run-for-president-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton credits herself for \u2018making it seem normal\u2019 to have a woman run for president &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-credits-herself-for-making-it-seem-normal-to-have-a-woman-run-for-president-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2307122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hillary Clinton recently wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles &#039;Anonymous&#039; Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">op-ed<\/a>\u200b in \u2063The New \u2062York\u200c Times \u200cendorsing Kamala Harris for president \u2063and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unsolved-the-black-dahlia-l-a-s-most-infamous-murder\/\" title=\"Unsolved: The Black Dahlia, L.A.&#039;s Infamous Murder\">claiming \u200ccredit<\/a> for paving the way for a woman to run for the highest\u2063 office in\u2063 the United States. She expressed her belief\u200d that Harris can \u2063defeat Donald Trump and criticized the\u200d sexism and double standards that women face in American \u200bpolitics. Clinton highlighted her own struggles in \u2062her presidential\u200b campaigns\u2063 in 2008 and 2016,\u200d and lamented that she couldn&#8217;t break the &#8220;highest, \u2063hardest glass ceiling.&#8221; She also defended\u200b Harris against misogynistic attacks and emphasized the challenges\u200d faced by the first Black and South Asian woman at the top of\u200b a major party&#8217;s ticket. Clinton&#8217;s support for\u200d Harris \u2063and\u2063 the Biden administration&#8217;s initiatives, particularly on immigration, was evident throughout\u200b the op-ed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Hillary Clinton credits herself for &lsquo;making it seem normal&rsquo; to have a woman run for president<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1698632\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>During a rousing endorsement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris&rsquo;s<\/a> bid for the White House, former Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hillary Clinton<\/a> claimed credit for smoothing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s path to victory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&rsquo;s enthusiastic support for Harris in a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/23\/opinion\/kamala-harris-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>op-ed<\/a> expressed a belief that the presumptive Democratic nominee can &ldquo;defeat Donald Trump,&rdquo; while mourning the &ldquo;sexism&rdquo; she believes surrounds American politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, however, believes Harris is in a better position because of her, writing on Tuesday that she&rsquo;s proud &ldquo;my two presidential campaigns made it seem normal to have a woman at the top of the ticket.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know a thing or two about how hard it can be for strong women candidates to fight through the sexism and double standards of American politics,&rdquo; Clinton lamented as she looked back on her failed 2008 and 2016 bids for the White House. &ldquo;It still pains me that I couldn&rsquo;t break that highest, hardest glass ceiling.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&rsquo;s belief that misogynistic &ldquo;MAGA mouthpieces&rdquo; threaten female candidates was a running theme throughout her op-ed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been called a witch, a &lsquo;nasty woman,&#8217;&rdquo; Clinton wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris. (AP Photos\/Peter K. Afriyie\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clinton indicated that one of her most pressing worries is that sexist attacks would distort Harris&rsquo;s record as vice president and California&rsquo;s attorney general.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary of state vigorously defended Harris and the Biden administration for leading immigration initiatives: &ldquo;Illegal border crossings are also dropping fast and are now the lowest they&rsquo;ve been since 2020.&rdquo; However, Clinton deplored the &ldquo;unique additional challenges&rdquo; she says Harris faces &ldquo;as the first Black and South Asian woman to be at the top of a major party&rsquo;s ticket.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ms. Harris is chronically underestimated, as are so many women in politics&rdquo;, the multimillionaire wife of former President Bill Clinton wrote as she heralded Harris, a former prosecutor, for taking on &ldquo;drug traffickers, polluters, and predatory lenders.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary and Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3092874\/bill-and-hillary-clinton-endorse-kamala-harris-after-joe-biden-quits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>endorsed Harris for president<\/a> shortly after Biden endorsed her on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s defense of Harris&rsquo;s resume comes as the vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3095128\/house-republicans-prepare-hit-harris-over-border-weakness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>faces criticism<\/a> for a historic rise in illegal immigration at the southern border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Clinton maintains that even the &ldquo;ugly prejudice&rdquo; of Trump supporters can&rsquo;t stop a Harris ticket from claiming the Oval Office.&nbsp;Female voters will be galvanized &ldquo;like never before,&rdquo; Clinton says,&nbsp; as Harris leads a movement that &ldquo;become[s] an unstoppable wave.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1698632\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1698632\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton recently wrote an op-ed\u200b in \u2063The New \u2062York\u200c Times \u200cendorsing Kamala Harris for president \u2063and claiming \u200ccredit for paving the way for a woman to run for the highest\u2063 office in\u2063 the United States. She expressed her belief\u200d that Harris can \u2063defeat Donald Trump and criticized the\u200d sexism and double standards that women &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2307123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hillary-clinton-kamala-harris-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32624,35956,35955],"class_list":["post-2307122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-political-trailblazer","tag-woman-president"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hillary-clinton-kamala-harris-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}