Democratic Women Gain Parity Ahead of 2020
The party is grappling with what Hillary Clinton’s loss means for the next women who seek the White House.
By David Catanese, Senior Politics Writer | May 8, 2017, at 3:42 p.m.
When Emily's List launched its national campaign in 2013 to elect the first female president, it wasn't much of a mystery exactly whom the group had in mind and when it wanted her to win the White House.
While Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., tiptoed into Iowa later that year and a progressive movement materialized in 2014 to try and draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., it was always widely presumed that Hillary Clinton would be the singular 2016 torchbearer she eventually became.
Clinton's loss, of course, leaves the goal unfulfilled. And Emily's List's "Madam President" initiative is paused in order for the group, which backs Democratic female candidates who support abortion rights, to prioritize more immediate down-ballot races. But in the demonstrably early, highly speculative yet plainly inevitable list of potential Democratic White House prospects for 2020, something significant already has occurred: There are roughly as many women being mentioned as top-tier contenders as men.
"There isn't just one woman in the entire country who can run for president. Part of our 2013 program was to say, 'Wait a second, there's actually a bench here,'" Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock said in a recent briefing with reporters. "It's not an oddity to have a woman listed – it's actually half the list."
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