On Monday night, Mrs. Clinton, who came achingly close to becoming the nation’s first female president, will pass the torch to a woman nearly two decades younger, in a moment that friends say comes with a mixture of bittersweetness and pride for Mrs. Clinton.
The last time Mrs. Clinton stood on the convention stage, dressed in suffragist white, she thought she was on track to be the next president. Much has happened since then — from Mrs. Clinton’s grief over and eventual acceptance of her 2016 loss, to the rise of a new generation of Democratic leaders. And America seems more at ease with women as candidates for the highest office, a shift no doubt advanced by Mrs. Clinton’s candidacies.
The two women didn’t have much of a relationship before 2020 and Ms. Harris’s ascension to the vice presidency. They were on opposite sides of the 2008 presidential primary between Barack Obama and Mrs. Clinton. Ms. Harris was among the first Democratic elected officials to endorse the Illinois senator and worked hard for his election.
Still, Mrs. Clinton has said that she feels a particular kinship with Ms. Harris because they are both lawyers who chose at the beginning of their careers to work on issues related to families and children. Mrs. Clinton’s first job after law school was as a staff lawyer for the Children’s Defense Fund, while Ms. Harris worked in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, specializing in prosecuting child sexual assault cases.
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America didn't reject her. Hillary won the popular vote.
I've always been of the view that Hillary Clinton would have been a truly great president. She was enormously well-prepared, very sharp -- analytically and in negotiations -- and had shrewd judgment. She was also middle-of-the-road in the ways that matter and would have had little patience for the extreme left flank of her party.
For those who don't yet feel like they know Vice President Harris as well as they know other candidates, the fact that luminaries like Secretary Clinton are so supportive should speak volumes.
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