The US is 'absolutely' ready for a female president, Harris says in NBC interview
Source: The Guardian
Tue 22 Oct 2024 20.27 EDT
Last modified on Tue 22 Oct 2024 21.21 EDT
Kamala Harris said that she has no doubt that the US was ready for a female president, insisting that Americans care more about what candidates can do to help them, rather than presidential contenders’ gender. The vice-president’s statement came during an interview with NBC News’s Hallie Jackson, who asked whether she thought the country was ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be in the Oval Office. “Absolutely,” Harris said. “Absolutely.”
“In terms of every walk of life of our country,” Harris said, “part of what is important in this election is really, not really turning the page – closing a chapter, on an era that suggests that Americans are divided. “The vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us and what the American people want in their president is a president for all Americans,” she said.
Harris was asked why she hasn’t leaned into the historic nature of her candidacy – that she is a woman of color running for the presidency. “I’m clearly a woman. I don’t need to point that out to anyone,” Harris said with a laugh. “The point that most people really care about is: can you do the job and, do you have a plan to actually focus on them?”
“That is why I spend the majority of my time listening and then addressing the concerns, the challenges, the dreams, the ambitions and the aspirations of the American people,” Harris continued, saying that Americans deserve a president focused on them, “as opposed to a Donald Trump, who is constantly focused on himself”. Harris also said she was aware that Trump might potentially try thwarting the presidential election results, noting that her team “will deal with election night and the days after as they come”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/kamala-harris-nbc-interview-female-president

2naSalit
(96,261 posts)
MaxFine
(45 posts)Of course we are, we elected one already in 2016, but the electoral college thought otherwise
Clouds Passing
(4,239 posts)Owens
(474 posts)Vote for Democracy! Vote Blue all the way down the ballot!!
spooky3
(37,265 posts)republianmushroom
(19,278 posts)YoshidaYui
(43,431 posts)President of all time if she can just get elected and beat TRUMP by thousands of votes.
cstanleytech
(27,499 posts)Biglinda 52
(103 posts)Why was that question even asked?
ificandream
(11,085 posts)I think a better question is "Is America ready to elect a twice-impeached, multi-convicted sexual offender as President?"
Magoo48
(6,141 posts)barbtries
(30,281 posts)Women make great leaders and anyone who doesn't know this is - probably an old white man or a religious zealot.
fuck the patriarchy
spooky3
(37,265 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/03/women-leaders-around-the-world/purr-rat beauty
(683 posts)A woman can be president. They do everything else a man can do....even peeing standing up
jalan48
(14,777 posts)
EarthFirst
(3,580 posts)You ready?
We’re ready!
LFG!
Figarosmom
(5,001 posts)The US is behind the rest of the world. There have been women ruling countries since the beginning of civilization.
But America " can't handle it?"
dchill
(41,799 posts)Initech
(104,396 posts)I know which way I'm voting!
PatrickforB
(15,193 posts)Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
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kwolf68
(7,980 posts)Sadly, it's too close.