Hillary Clinton claims she laid the groundwork for Kamala Harris’ presidential bid in self-congratulatory op-ed

Hillary Clinton couldn’t resist highlighting her two failed presidential bids when she endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

The former first lady and secretary of state was defeated by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries and by Trump in the 2016 election.

But that didn’t stop Clinton from boasting that she “won the national popular vote” in 2016, while giving Harris her enthusiastic endorsement and predicting she could become America’s first female president.

Vice President Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee for 2024 after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race against Trump on Sunday.

Clinton, 76, compared herself to Harris in a Article for the New York Times on Tuesday, where she presented herself as a woman paving the way for Harris, 59.

“While I still sting that I wasn’t able to break that highest, hardest glass ceiling, I’m proud that both of my presidential campaigns made it seem normal to have a woman at the top of the ticket,” she wrote.

Clinton, who served as first lady to her husband Bill from 1993 to 2001, explained how she was a victim of sexism as a presidential candidate.

“I know a thing or two about how difficult it can be for strong female candidates to fight the sexism and double standards of American politics,” she wrote.

“I’ve been called a witch, a ‘bad woman’ and much worse. I’ve even been burned in effigy.

‘As a candidate, I sometimes shied away from talking about making history. I wasn’t sure voters were ready for that. And I wasn’t running to break a barrier; I was running because I thought I was the most qualified to do the job.’

She acknowledged that Harris would “face unique additional challenges as the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major party ticket.”

Clinton wrote that she was optimistic that Harris could move past this, building on the positives of her failed campaign.

“After all, I won the national popular vote by nearly three million in 2016, and it wasn’t that long ago that Americans overwhelmingly elected our first black president,” he said, referring to Obama.

Clinton also referred to herself by comparing her repeated electoral failures to Biden’s “patriotic” decision to abandon his bid for a second term.

“As someone who shared that dream and had to come to terms with the idea of ​​letting it go, I know it wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do,” she wrote.

Harris was “chronically underrated, as so many women in politics are,” Clinton said, and would have to “make herself stand out” to win the election.

“Harris’ record and character will be distorted and disparaged by an avalanche of misinformation and the kind of ugly bias we’re already hearing from MAGA spokespeople,” he wrote.

‘A second Trump term would be far worse than his first. Trump’s plans are more extreme, he is more unhinged, and the barriers that contained some of his worst instincts have disappeared.’

Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in New York after her husband’s term expired, and served until 2009, when she was appointed Secretary of State by Obama.

He served only one term before resigning to focus on a second chance at the presidency, winning the nomination over Bernie Sanders.

However, despite winning the popular vote by 48.2 percent to 46.1 percent, he decisively lost the Electoral College by 227 to 304.

Clinton ceded the key states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which are again critical for Harris to win this year.

He also lost Iowa, Ohio and Florida, states that Obama won in 2012 along with the other three key states.