As a Brit I think we are conditioned to find American politics fascinating, which I know I certainly do.
The basis of my question is as follows, here it looks like our next PM will be female. We additionally had Teresa May in 2016.
If a female was elected to office would it likely be on team blue or team red.
I’d love some thoughts on this….TIA.
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You know, without getting too political, I’ll just say that absolutely anything is possible at this point.
Could it happen? Potentially. But sadly there are people here who refuse to be led by a woman, or who think women are incapable of being effective world leaders. It’s ridiculous imo.
Hillary won the popular vote in 2016, so yeah.
The vice president is female and she could very well be the front runner for president. I’m not sure how likely it is since I don’t do politics that much these days but, joe biden was obama’s VP so there’s precedent
To me, it’s not a matter of “if” it’s a matter of “when.”
A female won the popular vote in 2016.
Americans are a very accepting bunch and I think we would gladly vote for a woman who is moderate, has good ideas to fix the many problems we currently have, and isn’t filled with hate as many of the politicians on both sides are filled with
Yes
Depends on your definition of “near future” but absolutely there could be. Women are advancing up the ranks in the US – first a VP candidate in 08, then a Presidential candidate in 16, now an elected VP in 20. I can’t say who will be the first, though.
There *could,* but I’m not going to vote for a bad candidate who happens to be female. I don’t currently know of any potential female presidential candidates I would support.
Sure, every election there are more and more women who run. I think it would be a shock if no woman ran
Personally, despite being a feminist female democrat myself, my money is on the first female president being a republican women who puts major distance between herself and the title of feminist or progressives. I always thought Nikki Haley has a chance and won’t be shocked be she runs in the near future
I also have money on Trump picking a woman for his next vice president if/when he runs
I’m sure if you asked people in 2006 if they’d think we see a black president soon they’d say no. So really who knows? There’s a high chance Trump will run again in 2024, so it’s unlikely we’ll see one then since it’ll be Trump v Biden again. Buy maybe in 2028?
2028 is likely going to have a lot of female Democrats running. It’s certainly quite possible one of them wins
There is a female Vice President. She is literally a heartbeat or resignation away from the Presidency.
As far as being elected in on team blue or red, it could go either way.
If Biden kicks it before his term is out there’s a 100% chance, since Kamala Harris is VP. Hell, even if they both go we’d still end up with a woman as POTUS, since the Speaker of the House is next in line and that’s currently Nancy Pelosi.
However, this is purely academic and certainly not ideal. I’d say we still have a lot to work out before a woman can get elected as POTUS.
Put it this way: I don’t think Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she was a woman.
Also, we have a female Vice President, and if Joe Biden drops dead one day, she’ll be President.
Yeah fully.
Hilary lost because she’s an entrenched narcissist political idiot, not because she’ a woman.
I bet the first woman president will be a Republican though.
If our septuagenarian in chief has a massive stroke this afternoon, we’d have a female president before dinner.
We could theoretically have a female president as soon as today. Biden suffers a stroke because he is a very old man and Kamala is sworn in. As for elections we already had a female candidate win the popular vote so its not at all inconceivable for there to be another who wins the electoral college.
I mean, Kamala Harris is the closest person to the presidency right now. If anything happens to Biden, she’s president more or less automatically.
Now let’s assume you mean ‘be elected president, winning a majority of the electoral college?’ It’s probably controversial, but I’m more pessimistic on that than literally any other American demographic. Oh, a woman could win the popular vote no problem — Hillary did in 2016 — but the tipping point voter in a state required to win the Electoral college is of a more, let us say, ‘patriarchal’ culture than your average urban professional who works under a female CEO. In a televised debate, the male candidate would just need to respond to literally any argument the female candidate makes with “wrong!” or even “get a load of this broad!” and he’s winning, I dunno, Ohio by 20 points.
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The parliamentary system is based more around inter-party maneuvering, so any woman who happens to get far enough ahead in the party can be in the running. Speaker of the House is somewhat closer to Prime Minister than it is POTUS. And wouldn’t you know it, the current speaker is in fact a woman.
Sure, but it won’t be *because* she’s female. We have proven that we won’t vote for a candidate just because of that.
Putting aside the possibility of Biden dying in office, it’s very possible the first female president will be Republican, or whatever the party chooses to call itself after all reasonable minds are purged. Women on that side are vicious in their misogyny, which galvanizes the men behind them. The Democrats will want to avoid gender politics as to not upset the bygone blue-collar male who they still count on voting for the candidate their union supports.
It will certainly happen.
Sure. Despite what some left wing pundits would say, Hillary Clinton did not lose the election of 2016 because she was a woman. And that was a pretty close race. Its really just a matter of when that a decent woman candidate crops up. Now looking at the current field I’m not seeing anyone who puts up a decent challenge. Most of the prominent female politicians right now, on both sides of the aisle, either don’t have the name recognition or they’re too unpopular nationwide to be a viable candidate. If Biden keels over before 2024 we might have Harris though she would certainly not get reelected because she is wildly unpopular.
At any moment
One day we will catch up with other countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Israel, Argentina, Central African Republican, United Kingdom, Portugal, Dominica, Iceland, Norway, Malta, Philippines, Pakistan, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Ireland, Bangladesh, France, Poland, Turkey, Canada, Burundi, Rwanda, Haiti, Liberia, New Zealand, Guyana, Latvia, Panama, Finland, Senegal, Indonesia, Sao Tome and Principe, Germany, Chile, Jamaica, Moldova, Ukraine, Croatia, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Slovakia, Brazil, Mali, Kosovo, Thailand, Denmark, Malawi, South Korea, Slovenia, Norway, Maritius, Nepal, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Taiwan, Estonia, Serbia, Singapore, Romania, Barbados, Ethiopia, Georgia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Greece, Gabon, Togo, Tanzania, Samoa, Tunisia, Sweden, Honduras and Hungary…and finally have a female President.
Our first female president will be conservative Republican. I have zero doubt of this. Republicans will use the fact that she’s a woman to shame some independents and conservative democrats into voting for her, some will vote for her because she’s a woman and the republicans will vote for her because she’s republican.
She will enact the most conservative and repressive laws in Americas history.
This is my prediction.
We had a female running for president last election for the Libertarian party. I don’t see why it couldn’t happen other lack of decent candidates.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
I’d say the country is ready.
It’ll most likely be a dem. The Republican Party is a mess and there’s not a single woman currently who has a shot.
I have a feeling in 2028 will have a decent amount of women running. Republicans will run a bunch if we have a democrat president and democrats will run a bunch if we have a republican president.
In the past 4 elections there have been women on 3 tickets, 2 as VP (Sarah Palin, Kamala Harris) and 1 as President (Hillary Clinton). One of them is VP now, and could be President at any time if Biden were to discontinue his presidency for any reason before end-of-term. I would not at all be surprised if the next election has tickets with women as well (perhaps even both tickets).
I voted for Elizabeth Warren for president in the primary and last year Kathryn Garcia for mayor, struck out both times