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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'If she was pro-life I'd vote for her': Kirsten Gillibrand hits New Hampshire
The senator is running for president as a mother, a feminist and an experienced politician capable of reaching across the aisle
Josh Wood in Hanover, New Hampshire
Sun 17 Feb 2019 08.39 EST Last modified on Sun 17 Feb 2019 08.52 EST
When Kirsten Gillibrand tells people shes running for president, she often talks about running as a mother.
Being a woman and a mother is central to the New York senators political message, a defining note even if not always intentionally so, as her campaign trail anecdotes continually drift back to it.
She says she views the world through a mothers eyes, caring for the children of America and the world like she does her own. It is part of her origin story, of her first visit to a campaign headquarters with her grandmother, of how a past opponent dismissed her as just a pretty face. To many in America, it was the senators commitment to speaking out against sexual misconduct that drove her rise.
In a traditional election year pretty much every one the US has had so far being a woman with a defining, defiant and unapologetic voice would be enough to separate her from the competition, who would be men. But this election is different.
It comes after Donald Trumps victory in 2016, a campaign in which the Republican candidate made derogatory comments about female critics and weathered accusations of sexual misconduct and even the unearthing of a tape in which he said he could do anything when trying to seduce women, even grab them by the pussy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/17/kirsten-gillibrand-president-new-hampshire
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'If she was pro-life I'd vote for her': Kirsten Gillibrand hits New Hampshire (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2019
OP
sorry, Gillibrand led the charge...she is 100% responsible AND if we are looking for presidential
beachbum bob
Feb 2019
#12
Takket
(21,424 posts)1. Kindly stuff your anti-choice vote up you ass, Tomi Salzmann
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)3. Well, they're taking those votes
and stuffing them in the ballot box. That's just a reality.
After nearly 50 years, this issue is not going away.
ProfessorGAC
(64,419 posts)10. Then They Can't Be Reached, So Write Them Off
No dem is going to win a primary by being anti-choice, so Tomi is never voting for a D!
Therefore, her opinion is not worth chasing.
Rene
(1,183 posts)2. tell her to just go home she'll not get anywhere with her campaign
traitor to a fellow Democrat
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)6. Care to point to your similar posts about the campaigns of:
Cory Booker
Elizabeth Warren
Amy Klobuchar?
Ohiogal
(31,659 posts)4. Abortion is always
the issue for those one issue nutbags.
In It to Win It
(8,142 posts)5. I don't understand...
For people that claim they less government meddling in peoples lives, they dont mind the meddling on this issue.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)7. If she apologizes to Al franken, I take her my bad list
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)11. Maybe you should ask for an apology from Al Franken for being a quitter.
He resigned, it's on his head.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)12. sorry, Gillibrand led the charge...she is 100% responsible AND if we are looking for presidential
material she is NOT....until she issues apology.
Sign of a leader is to admit when they do wrong, hence she is NO leader
c-rational
(2,581 posts)8. At this stage of the game reaching across the aisle is akin to saying the devil deserves a place
at the table...I think NOT.
J_William_Ryan
(1,736 posts)9. Everyone is pro-life.
Including those who support and defend a womans right to privacy.