Opinion: The best retort to 'The election’s too important to nominate a woman'
Stacey Abrams in Washington on May 10. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 14 at 1:30 PM We have noted the unfortunate sentiment expressed quite openly among some Democrats — even among some female Democrats — that the 2020 election is about an existential threat to our country that is far too important to risk nominating a woman.
When I declared, there was a group that just thought it was impossible for a black woman to cut through the history of racism and sexism in the state of Georgia, and that I certainly couldn’t accomplish something [winning as a Democrat] that white men had not been able to accomplish for the last 15 years. . . .
Abrams is out of office. She never served in an executive capacity at the state or federal level. But that’s exactly the position former representative Beto O’Rourke is in, and yet he is taken seriously as a presidential contender. Abrams is right that people’s conception of a leader is heavily influenced by gender and race, but she’s also the best example that shows political insiders, moneymen and other politicians are often the least imaginative.
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