Hillary Clinton, wearing suffragette white, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention Monday to endorse Kamala Harris as the potential first female president, a role Clinton once sought herself. “The future is here!” Clinton declared to a cheering crowd, linking Harris’s candidacy to the broader women’s rights movement.
Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major party, reflected on her 2016 loss to Donald Trump, acknowledging the progress made and the battles still ahead. The audience responded with chants of “lock him up” when Trump was mentioned, a reversal of the chants once directed at Clinton.
Clinton concluded by celebrating the cracks made in the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” expressing hope that Harris would finally break through.
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