'Turning the page': Harris says America is ready for a female president of color
Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Tuesday that she is not concerned that sexism could affect next month’s election and that she thinks the country is ready for a woman of color in the White House.
Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Tuesday that she is not concerned that sexism could affect next month’s election and that she thinks the country is ready for a woman of color in the White House.
“Come to my events and you will see there are men and women,” Harris said at her official residence in the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. “The experience that I am having is one in which it is clear that regardless of someone’s gender, they want to know that their president has a plan to lower costs, that their president has a plan to secure America in the context of our position around the world.
"Every walk of life of our country," she continued, "I think part of what is important in this election is really not only turning the page but closing the page and the chapter on an era that suggests that Americans are divided."
Harris covered several topics, including saying abortion rights are “nonnegotiable,” even as she campaigns with anti-abortion-rights Republicans like former Rep. Liz Cheney and saying she would work with Republicans to find compromises if she is elected.
Harris would be the first female president in American history and only the second nonwhite one. But 16 years after Barack Obama was elected to be the first Black president and eight years after Hillary Clinton lost her shot to break the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Harris said she is not concerned about sexism stopping her.
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