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Can a woman win the Presidency?
Hillary Clinton’s defeat means nothing
So this year, Democrats are fielding perhaps the most impressive slate of women candidates for President ever. You have Tulsi Gabbard, who was the first woman to finish as the distinguished honor graduate in the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School’s 50-year history, and who served in a combat zone in Iraq. You have Kirsten Gillibrand, a distinguished attorney who speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently. You have Kamala Harris, a skilled prosecutor who showed her chops questioning Attorney General William Barr during his Congressional testimony. You have attorney Amy Klobuchar who was named Minnesota “Attorney of the Year.” You have Harvard professor and consumer rights advocate Elizabeth Warren. And rounding out the candidates is best-selling self-help author Marianne Williamson.
All of these candidates have met the high barrier required to be included in the first Democratic debate. Several of them, including Gabbard, Harris, Klobuchar, and Warren meet the high standard both based upon polling results and number of individual contributors.
And according to Real Clear Politics, Elizabeth Warren is running a strong third place behind only Biden and Sanders, who both have prior candidacies to build upon. And in at least one recent national poll, Warren is in second place behind only…
