MaryAlice Parks, ABC News – December 16, 2016
President Obama said today that he did not think Hillary Clinton was “treated fairly” during the presidential election.
MaryAlice Parks, ABC News – December 16, 2016
President Obama said today that he did not think Hillary Clinton was “treated fairly” during the presidential election.
Caryn Ganz and Patrick Healy, New York Times – December 11, 2016
Madonna and Mrs. Clinton: both trailblazers, both polarizing figures, and both attacked for actions, choices and behavior that are broadly accepted — even applauded — when done by their male peers. Madonna herself made a connection between the two women before her speech Friday, saying it was “really important to make a stand and speak my mind” about women’s rights after Mrs. Clinton’s loss in November.
Women in the World, New York Times – December 6, 2016
Popularity was a contest she really won this year. Clinton can also take satisfaction that a quote from her concession speech and tweeted by her official account turned out to be the most popular political tweet of the year, and the third most popular tweet on any topic of the year, according to data released by Twitter on Tuesday. “To all the little girls watching … never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world,” Clinton said in her speech the day after the election.
Kyle Drennen, MRC TV – December 2, 2016
On her MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell decried the fact that the usual liberal identity politics did not work with voters in November’s election. Talking to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, she fretted over the revelation that campaign focus groups “showed that people related to Hillary Clinton as a man.”
Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg Markets – December 2, 2016
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde called for greater attention to protecting the dignity of women, saying everyone has a responsibility to combat misogyny.
Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post – December 1, 2016
Early in the campaign, a 4-year-old girl dressed as Hillary Clinton for Halloween, wearing a blazer and carrying a briefcase, met her idol. The candidate, then vying for the Democratic nomination, posed for a picture with her mini-me after an event in the girl’s home town of Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Clinton told her she looked like a future president.
Nicole Guadiano, USA Today – December 1, 2016
To many Americans, 2016 seemed the moment when voters would make history by electing the first woman president. No woman, of course, had ever come closer than Hillary Clinton, the first female nominee of a major party. But since she couldn’t shatter what she’s called the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” now the question remains: If not her, who could be Madam President?
Katherine Faulders, Benjamin Siegel, and Alexander Mallin, ABC News – December 1, 2016
While President-elect Donald Trump teased an action plan for his administration at his first post-election rally Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio, he spent most of the evening taking a victory lap, touting his election night win over two dozen times as he recounted his campaign successes and mocked the media coverage of the election.
John T. Bennett, Roll Call – December 1, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump is considering adding North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to his Cabinet and will meet with her on Friday in New York.
Valentina Zarya, Fortune – November 29, 2016
Speaking on a panel about the 2016 presidential election at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Tuesday afternoon, three political power players all had California’s Senator-elect Harris in mind when asked about the Democratic Party’s best hope for the 2020 presidential race.