Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton failed but will US ever elect a female President?

United States of America has the world's oldest democracy but the country is yet to get a female President.

Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., don't agree on much. Yet, recently the ideological adversaries found some common ground on a political question that has quietly endured over nearly two decades. Yes, a woman can win the White House, they agree. But she's probably going to be conservative, NYT News Service reported.



"Are there women out there, governors, Republican, Democrat, that can be the next president of the United States? Absolutely," Graham said in an interview on Capitol Hill this month. "If you have a Republican female nominee, they would have a good shot of being the first woman president."


A few days earlier and several hundred miles north, Clinton -- whose wife tried and failed twice to win the White House -- made a similar argument, as per a report on NYT News Service .


"Ideologically, the people who are most likely to be against women are most likely to be conservative, so when people agree with you, it's easier to be for them," he said in an appearance at the DealBook Summit hosted by The New York Times. "But I think a woman can be elected president. I do."


Their similar predictions are the latest in a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates.


For Democrats still scarred by Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in 2016, Vice President Kamala Harris' defeat at the hands of the same man in November has only deepened anxieties over gender bias and prompted a fresh round of debate over the electability of women to the nation's highest office.


For decades, advocates for female political leaders argued that if more women ran for president, their presence in American politics would become normalized and one would eventually win the White House. Since Clinton's first attempt to break what she called "that highest, hardest glass ceiling" in 2008, nine other women have vied for a major party's nomination.


Those candidates have been conservative and liberal, racially diverse, and from big cities, small towns and across the country. Some campaigned on an economic message, others focused on social issues. Only two -- Clinton and Harris, both Democrats -- captured their party's nomination.


As they process the second defeat of a female nominee, Democrats are divided over the question of how much Harris' gender actually contributed to her loss, making it hard to divine what exactly that could mean for their party in 2028. Two weeks before Election Day, Harris openly dismissed concerns that sexism could hurt her chances, saying in an interview with NBC News that the country was "absolutely" ready to elect a female president.

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