Will America Finally Put a Woman in the White House?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris is up against a whole lot. As the presumptive Democratic nominee, she’s fighting against years of political malaise among her own voters, while competing against a man who has a cult-like following within his base. But these challenges, as Hillary Clinton learned herself in 2016, hardly get at the biggest question mark: Is America finally ready for a woman in the White House? That’s the subject of this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, which features NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, who unpacks the long-standing gender inequities of performing on the national stage, the unique challenges faced by the vice president, and what a Harris victory might mean in the decades to come. “The more Black people, the more women who you see in positions of power, the more you realize, ‘Hey, this is normal. Of course, when they run, they can win,’” Vitali says. “And that's partly why we’re seeing this coalescing around Kamala Harris right now.”

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0:34.0	So Joe Biden is out,
0:40.0	Kamala Harris is in.
0:42.0	This has been head spinning.
0:44.0	Ali, what does this week felt like to you?
0:46.3	Head spinning roller coaster, absolutely insane, especially tracking it from Capitol Hill.
0:51.5	It's sort of like, how did we get here with
0:53.6	Kamala Harris being the person after the first two years of her
0:58.0	vice presidency were full of criticism to put it lightly it's been wild
1:02.1	that's alley vitally criticism to put it lightly it's been wild. That's Ali Vitali
1:04.7	Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News and author of
1:08.4	electable. As her subtitle puts it the book is all about why America hasn't put a woman in the White House
1:16.2	yet.
1:18.1	And I'm Brian Stelter.
1:19.7	Let me welcome you to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. This week we're going inside the
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