Kamala Harris was asked if a woman can beat Trump in 2020. Her answer is both inspiring and honest [View all]

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At the town hall in Des Moines, among other things, she was (basically) asked if she thinks it’s possible for a woman to beat Donald Trump in 2020.

Here’s the question, asked by playwright and composer Robert John Ford:

"Some have also said that, given what occurred in 2016 and the current political climate, that a male nominee will have a better chance this time around than a female nominee. Would you please respond to this so that this man has a response ready the next time a man tries to mansplain why a man would make a better nominee?"

Her answer covered some solid ground, first looping back to when she ran for district attorney in San Fransisco (and later attorney general of California), and how she responded to doubters then:

“I’ve heard people say when I ran, and ran as the first woman who would win, ‘People aren’t ready. It’s not your time. Nobody like you has done that before,’. I haven’t listened and I would suggest that nobody should listen to that kind of conversation.”

VIDEO:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/29/kamala-harris-iowa-town-hall-2020-male-candidate-mansplaining-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/29/1830602/-Kamala-Harris-was-asked-if-a-woman-can-beat-Trump-in-2020-her-answer-is-both-inspiring-and-honest