Can Kamala Harris Break The Glass Ceiling To Be 1st Ever Female US President? #USElections2024(Foreign)
Can Vice President Kamala Harris become the first ever female US president?
Vice president Kamala Harris
Even in the business world, very few women becomes presidents and CEO of corporations. Amo g the very few who did, were enabled by the fact that they were heiresses who inherited family businesses not mainly through the boardroom.
In politics, it is a tighter situation. The closest any woman came close, twice, to occupying the Oval Office, was when Hillary Clinton squared off with first Barack Obama in 2008 and afterwards, against Donald Trump in 2016. She lost the Democratic Party's nomination to Obama, and lost the general election to Trump.
Hillary ClintonWhy? Hillary, like do many others then, under-estimated Obama in 2008. This is understandable, she is a original political staple having been First Lady and Senator. Obama was just a fresh Senator from Illinois. Besides, she focused on securing votes from the bigger, dominant swing states like California and Ohio. Whereas Obama knew he stood no chances so, focused on racking up the needed delegates votes behind him by taking votes from smaller states. The major reason for her loss, is her least popularity within the party where she was deemed arrogant, aloof and domineering. Unlike Barack, noted for being an affable and people's person.
Media houses too lined up behind Obama quickly because of these traits unlike Hillary touted as having a disdain for the press and reported as carrying on as if she already won the elections.
Second time around, Hillary mended her ways within the party and won the primary. But, her seeming unapprochable tales continue, with her said to be going around with an entourage of bodyguards, forbidding any enquires or any interaction with the public.
As events turn out, she lost to Trump contrary to virtually voters projections and opinion poll predictions. It turns out that America, despite it's modernism, remains deeply and shockingly conservative over one thing: it still does not want a female to be their president.
The election fell prey to Bradley's law, after the famous African American LA mayor who lost the governorship election of the state despite all polls pointing at him winning the election. Many poll respondents hid their bias towards having a person of colour as their governor lest they are accused of being racists and picked him as their choice in electoral polls. Only to vote for the white republican candidate instead.
It was an eye opener because even Democrats voted for the white. Republican candidate because they identify with him based on race, not party any longer.
This scenario played out in 2016, with some democrats secretly opting for Trump, based on gender now. Many white women, 57 percent, voted for Trump because they said they "did not trust Hillary due to allegations surrounding her diversion of work emails to her home computer, her alleged role in Libya crisis among others.
Harris
Now, Kamara is of mixed black and Asian ancestry, so the dominant black population as well as Asian community will back her in poll numbers in the general elections if if she wins the primary. Her husband, Douglas Emhoff, is Jewish, which is that bloc which often give out the huge checks for campaign donations which comes into full effect judging by the huge donations that rolled in, within 10 hours after Biden stepped down. Besides, that is the powerful bloc that sways US elections most. So, Harris has all the proper groundworks basically covered.
Her chinks in the armour remain those in the party who label her as somewhat too unbendable and uncompromising to the supremacy of the party; she plays people's politics of supporting party figures versus the party itself. Moreover, the still-prevailing general conservative bias which US deep down harbours among male voters of all races towards having a female president, is another hurdle she must face if she is to shatter the glass ceiling for women finally.
We'll soon see.
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