Bill Clinton says he ‘still’ believes US will soon have ‘female president’

On November 20, 2024By Littum

Former President Clinton said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believes the United States is ready to have a female-led executive branch “soon.”

“I still think we’re going to have a … female president pretty soon,” Clinton said in an interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning” with the outlet’s Tracy Smith.

Vice President Harris, who recently lost her bid for the White House to President-elect Trump, would have been the first woman, black woman and person of South Asian descent to secure the presidency had she won. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would also have been the first woman to hold the presidency had she won in 2016.

Both Hillary Clinton and Harris faced Trump in their respective races. However, he defeated them both.

The former president said in his interview with Tracy Smith that he believes “it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win” the presidency and said the country has “moved to the right.”

“I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she would have gone in, just like Obama did,” Clinton said in the interview.

Clinton campaigned for Harris during the last election cycle, but drew criticism for comments he made in late October at a Harris event in which he defended Israel’s killing of civilians and said Hamas had used them as human shields.

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