{"id":2419556,"date":"2025-04-03T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-lujan-grisham-eyes-2028-says-women-should-hold-60-of-offices-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:42:41","slug":"michelle-lujan-grisham-eyes-2028-says-women-should-hold-60-of-offices-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-lujan-grisham-eyes-2028-says-women-should-hold-60-of-offices-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Lujan Grisham eyes 2028, says women should hold 60% of offices &#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\">30<\/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%2Fmichelle-lujan-grisham-eyes-2028-says-women-should-hold-60-of-offices-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=2419556&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>New Mexico Governor michelle Lujan Grisham is considering a run for the Democratic nomination in the 2028 presidential election, expressing her desire to be &#8220;useful&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-big-plans-for-a-railroad-thats-not-humanly-possible-this-might-be-joes-craziest-idea-yet\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Unrealistic Railroad Plans: Joe&#039;s Wildest Idea\">addressing pressing issues<\/a> concerning the contry and the planet. Speaking at Harvard University&#8217;s Kennedy School, Grisham emphasized the need for greater female representation in politics, advocating that women should hold 54% to 60% of elected offices to reflect their demographic presence in society. She highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-taliban-takes-afghanistan-biden-celebrates-womens-equality-day-says-voter-id-oppresses-women\/\" title=\"As Taliban Takes Afghanistan, Biden Celebrates \u201cWo...\u2019s Equality Day,\u201d Says Voter ID Oppresses Wo...\">barriers women face<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">seeking political office<\/a>, including being held to higher standards than men. Grisham also criticized the emphasis on qualifications for male candidates, implying that less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turley-bidens-black-female-supreme-court-requirement-unconstitutional-in-other-contexts\/\" title=\"Turley: Biden&#039;s Black, Female Supreme Court Require...t &#039;Unconstitutional&#039; in Other Contexts\">qualified men<\/a> have more opportunities to win office. Despite polls showing former Vice President Kamala Harris leading the potential candidates for the 2028 election, Grisham&#8217;s focus remains on increasing women&#8217;s participation in politics.  <\/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\">Michelle Lujan Grisham eyes 2028, says women should hold 60% of offices<\/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_1993150\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>New Mexico Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michelle-lujan-grisham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Michelle Lujan Grisham<\/a> is eyeing a bid for the Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2028-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">nomination in 2028,<\/a> declaring, &ldquo;I want to be useful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing her future plans, the two-term governor said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m worried about my country, and I&rsquo;m worried about my planet. If you really are in that position on any of those things, then that&rsquo;s a call to action in whatever way any of us can be useful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3368921\/bidens-china-ambassador-predicts-deal-not-war-over-tariffs\/\">Biden&rsquo;s China ambassador predicts &#8216;deal&#8217; not &#8216;war&#8217; over tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3367299\/tesla-attacks-political-unrest-spark-self-defense-gun-sales\/\">Tesla attacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tesla-attacks-and-political-unrest-spark-self-defense-gun-sales-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Tesla attacks and political unrest spark \u2018self-defense\u2019 gun sales - Washington Examiner\">political unrest spark &#038;lsquo<\/a>;self-defense&rsquo; gun sales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3366232\/voters-democrats-dump-kamala-harris-2028-election\/\">Voters agree: Democrats should tone it down, dump Harris in 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking at Harvard University&rsquo;s Kennedy School on Wednesday, the governor also said that she wants to see many more women in politics and said that their percentage of representation should be similar to their percentage of the population.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see more women elected. There are eight Democratic governors and four Republican governors, and I&rsquo;d like to see 54% to 60% of all elected offices filled by women. Not that I want to create yet a new and more heinous gender bias anywhere. But if we&rsquo;re going to really uphold a fragile democracy, and God knows it&rsquo;s fragile, then you have to represent the people in the right ways, which means 54%-plus are women,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Governing the Border: A Conversation on Immigration Policy and Governance in the United States\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyY5Z3QNcWQ?start=2993&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lujan Grisham suggested that women have been slow to jump in because they are held to a higher standard than men and because some are unsure if they are ready to run.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s hard is we&rsquo;ve learned that we haven&rsquo;t been ready. Otherwise, there would have been a woman. The most qualified candidates have been women,&rdquo; she said in answering a biased question about whether a woman will ever be elected president as the country shifts &ldquo;to the right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Several conservative seats in Congress are filled by conservative women.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3368921\/bidens-china-ambassador-predicts-deal-not-war-over-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"BIDEN'S CHINA AMBASSADOR PREDICTS 'DEAL' NOT 'WAR' OVER TARIFFS\">BIDEN&rsquo;S CHINA AMBASSADOR PREDICTS &lsquo;DEAL&rsquo; NOT &lsquo;WAR&rsquo; OVER TARIFFS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lujan Grisham also took a dig at less qualified men winning office. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter as much the qualifications and experience, the way the country works, for male candidates,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Polls continue to show that former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3366232\/voters-democrats-dump-kamala-harris-2028-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> leads in the 2028 popularity contest, though largely because she ran and lost in 2024 and is the most well-known of the candidates considering a bid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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_1993150\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1993150\"}});<\/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>Michelle Lujan Grisham aims for 2028, advocates for 60% women in office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2419557,"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\/2025\/04\/Grisham-2028-Vote-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[41461,52790,35708,32076,38767],"class_list":["post-2419556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-2028-election","tag-michelle-lujan-grisham","tag-political-leadership","tag-washington-examiner","tag-women-in-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Grisham-2028-Vote-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419556","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419560,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419556\/revisions\/2419560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}