Can a woman never become president of the United States?

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SINGAPORE – The 2024 elections look eerily similar to the 2016 election, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump despite being the favorite in the race. This begs the question: Can a woman ever hope to become president of the United States?

Former president Trump stands on the brink of the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House and Republicans both houses of Congress, even as America waits for a winner to be called.

This election was truly a sexist election. According to ABC News’ preliminary poll results released Nov. 6, Ms. Harris held a 10-point advantage among women (54 percent to Trump’s 44 percent). For men, the figures were reversed.

Mrs. Clinton lost the election in 2016 for a multitude of reasons, including Russian disinformation, a damaging FBI investigation into email servers and indifference about Rust Belt states.

But at heart he was seen as cold, calculating and unlikable; However, many people pointed out that the bar was unfairly higher for her because she was a woman. By comparison, Trump can get away with the most outrageous, misogynistic comments.

Still, it wouldn’t be fair to attribute Ms. Harris’s dismal results to the deeply sexist belief that a woman can never be president of the United States.

The truth was that the vice president had started this race at a huge disadvantage because he was closely tied to the incumbent government. This was an election for change, as broad economic discontent increased voter sentiment.

More than seven in 10 Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. Even in middle- and high-income households, more Americans lived paycheck to paycheck in 2023 than in 2019, according to Bank of American Institute research.

Despite the incredible discipline of the Democratic Party, its powerful ground operations to garner votes, and the impressive efforts of her campaign, it was always going to be an uphill battle for Ms. Harris to try to brand herself as an agent of change with a “new path forward.” Bringing together policy proposals to create an economy of opportunity and improve the lives of the broad middle segment of Americans

As Trump put it during his first and only debate with her: “He started by saying… he’s going to do all these great things. Why didn’t he? “It was there for three and a half years.”

Compared to Trump, who had the advantage of a one-term presidency and national recognition, Ms. Harris was the underdog who had to define who she was and what she represented. This is a difficult figure to exceed in four months.

Trump ran a strong campaign focused on electing Americans who had never voted before, especially men without a college education. This past week, Joe Rogan continued to impress the “manosphere” by sitting down with podcasters like Theo Von and Nelk Boys, as well as YouTubers Logan Paul and Adin Ross, all of whom have a predominantly young male audience.

Perhaps the truth is that Trump benefits from a smaller but highly energized base going to the polls compared to the more fragile and broad-based coalition Democrats are trying to cobble together. This is a loose group of black, Latino, Asian and young voters who have little in common with each other. We’ll know more in the coming days as more exit polls are released about why the blue wave never happened.

Much of this might come down to this: abortion was not the powerful and emotional vote-getting issue it was. 2022 midterm exams, He was credited with beating back the Republican wave. Being a woman made Ms. Harris a consummate advocate for reproductive rights, but that advantage apparently didn’t matter much.