Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made fun of female Republicans by claiming that if they became president, they would all be servants of “the patriarchy.”
“Well, first of all, don’t be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few,” Clinton said during a May 1 discussion at New York City’s 92nd Street Y when asked by moderator Margaret Hoover what advice she had for the first female President of the United States.
In the previous several elections, several women have run for president, notably Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s UN ambassador last year. Former Vice President Kamala Harris won the Democratic nomination for president in 2024 after former President Joe Biden dropped out. President Donald Trump beat Harris, just like he did Clinton in 2016.
Clinton said that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was one of the “few” women in the Republican Party whom she admired. At times, Murkowski has been quite critical of Trump. For example, she voted to convict him during his second impeachment hearing in 2021.
When Hoover brought up Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming who backed Biden in 2024 and then Harris, Clinton said yes. Cheney also helped head the House committee inquiry into Trump on January 6.
“Yeah, there’s a few,” Clinton said during the May 1 interview, which was posted last week.
Clinton also recalled her support for Harris during the 2024 campaign, suggesting that it will take time to elect a female president.
“Look, first we have to get there, and it is, you know, obviously so much harder than it should be,” Clinton said. “So, you know, if a woman runs who I think would be a good president — as I thought Kamala Harris would be, and as I knew I would be, I will support that woman.”
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In news that will rock the Democrat Party, a series of new surveys shows that President Trump’s approval ratings are equal to those of former President Obama when he began his second stint in the White House.
The three surveys indicate that President Trump has a higher approval rating than he had at the end of his first term, The Washington Examiner reported.
And the polls indicated that his policies are faring even better.
“His policies are more popular than he is,” Rasmussen Reports reporter Mark Mitchell said.
“I think he’s got room to grow it,” Harvard Caps-Harris Poll chief, Mark Penn, said.
A new Big Data Poll said that the president’s approval rating is 48 percent, with his favorability at 51 percent.
The poll also indicated that the president is settling into a routine, despite his approval rating dropping from the record 55 percent he held at the beginning of his second term, and is in a position to continue growing.
“If these economic concerns turn out to be unjustified, we should all expect the president’s numbers to rebound, perhaps sharply,” Rich Baris, the director of the poll, said.
“Some IMPORTANT observations…,” Mitchell said in a post on X. “These MSM pollsters definitely dumped extra-hostile polls last week > Even before that they were about 3-7 points left of us > We put out more polls BY FAR than all of those names > Look at that cluster at the end there – Definitely an op!” he said in the caption of a chart he shared on X.
When Penn appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” he said that the people surveyed found the president’s policies even more popular than Trump himself.
“If I say, ‘Do you approve of what the president is doing on immigration,’ 51% say ‘Yes.’ But when I say, ‘Do you favor or oppose some of the policies that he’s implementing,’ close to 70% say ‘Yes,’” the pollster said.
“So when his name is in there, I get a more partisan response. To me, that indicates that if he’s successful with his policies, he can chip away at that partisanship and get from 50 to 55, or 60, which is where you want to get to,” he said.
