Multiple women are in the 2020 race already and people are so pumped
Source: Bustle
It's perhaps more likely than ever that the next U.S. president could be a woman. Following a history-making number of female candidates joining Congress this month, women in the 2020 presidential race have broken additional records less than three weeks into the new year.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) became the latest woman to make a presidential bid when she announced her intentions on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. Prior to her announcement, both Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) declared they were running, and more women seem poised to do the same.
Three women candidates is already enough to make history. The Los Angeles Timesnotes that the previous record for female Democratic presidential candidates is two; and according to CNN, this is the first time two female senators from the same party have run for president simultaneously.
The 2020 race will look far different from 2016, when the only female contender in the Democratic primary was Hillary Clinton, alongside five men. Republicans had only one woman, Carly Fiorina, in the party's 17-person lineup. Green Party candidate Jill Stein was the only high-profile female contender in the race besides Clinton.
Click here to read the full article published by Bustle on 16 January 2019.
It's perhaps more likely than ever that the next U.S. president could be a woman. Following a history-making number of female candidates joining Congress this month, women in the 2020 presidential race have broken additional records less than three weeks into the new year.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) became the latest woman to make a presidential bid when she announced her intentions on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. Prior to her announcement, both Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) declared they were running, and more women seem poised to do the same.
Three women candidates is already enough to make history. The Los Angeles Timesnotes that the previous record for female Democratic presidential candidates is two; and according to CNN, this is the first time two female senators from the same party have run for president simultaneously.
The 2020 race will look far different from 2016, when the only female contender in the Democratic primary was Hillary Clinton, alongside five men. Republicans had only one woman, Carly Fiorina, in the party's 17-person lineup. Green Party candidate Jill Stein was the only high-profile female contender in the race besides Clinton.
Click here to read the full article published by Bustle on 16 January 2019.