On Tuesday June 7th, 2016, states including California and New Jersey held their primaries to vote for the next presidential candidate. While the Republican party didn't have much of an option with who to choose, the Democratic party was awaiting the results from yesterdays election to see who would be representing them in the race. Before the results were even announced publicly, the Clinton Campaign released this video. The video conveyed the social platform the Clinton campaign is trying to push as their main objective.
Once the results were announced, it was foreseen that Hillary would be the Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential race. After the announcement, Hillary gave her victory speech smiling and glowing with her obvious excitement, like a girl winning prom queen and waving to her audience with a shiny tiara on her head.
What is important to recognize now is that Hillary Clinton, whether you love her, hate her, or have no idea how to feel, has just made history. She makes it a point in her victory speech and her latest campaign video that this is a victory for everyone. She makes this point by stating, “It may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now. But don’t worry, we’re not smashing this one. Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” Clinton says in her speech. Clinton wants her supporters to know that this victory is creating a new idea about who can achieve what. It creates new conversations, new ideas, and new visions.
This article is not here to convince you to support Hillary or tell you to vote for her. Whatever your stance is on this election is yours to decide, but what is important for everyone to do is just take a moment to understand how much this changes the past and the future. In 1919 Congress finally passed the right for women to vote in an election. From then until now women were never thought of as a true competitor for the presidential nominee.
Almost every time I hear the words "Maybe she/you will be the next woman president!" (Not that I want to or ever did really) there was never a tone of hope. It was a tone of slight satire followed by a fake smile as if mockingly saying underneath it "like that will ever happen". This didn't come from anyone one particular person, it was seen in a pattern said by anyone who said it. Anita Dunn, a Democratic operative, proved my point by commenting on Hillary's victory to the Huffington post. “There is a difference between thinking hypothetically about the first woman President and Hillary Clinton actually becoming the first female nominee of a major party, and I think for many women they will find themselves unexpectedly emotional about this...”
So thank you Hillary Clinton, for changing the game for women in America and proving you don't need balls to get things done.
