Blame it on racist, sexist America… That has been and remains the Democrats' strategy when they don’t get their way.
Kamala Harris started using this talking point during the 2020 election cycle to have an excuse at the ready if she did not succeed.
Now, former first lady Michelle Obama is using the same talking point to explain how Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
Harris started pushing the idea that America was not ready for a black woman to be president nearly as soon as she launched her ill-fated 2020 campaign for the White House.
She raised the subject during an NAACP event, then she brought it up again during an Axios interview, wondering aloud if "America was ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States of America.”
During another interview with ABC News, she stated, “There are elements of sexism, or unique challenges that female candidates face, that male candidates do not.”
This is what I like to call setting the table, as Harris was clearly getting the excuse ready to place the blame on voters rather than accept the reality that she was just not a good candidate.
Once again, after Joe Biden abandoned his re-election campaign in 2024, the question of whether America was ready for a black woman to be president was asked anew.
Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator turned pundit, penned an op-ed on the subject. In part, she wrote, “As a Black woman, that answer comes in the form of another question: Has America ever been ready for us? Was America ready for my ancestors to be freed from enslavement? No.”
Turner continued, “Was America ready for Jim Crow laws to end? No. Was America ready for integration? No. Was America ready for a Black President? No.”
With this party, it always comes down to race. It’s never about qualifications. If they put a black candidate on the ballot, especially a woman, and you don’t vote for that candidate, you are surely racist, sexist, or both.
Michelle Obama is now stirring the pot on this front, claiming that our country is “not ready” to elect a woman as president, but I could not disagree more.
She stated, "That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.” She later added, "You know, we’ve got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.”
Or, maybe, just maybe, the Democrats have not put a woman on the ballot who is good enough to win. Hillary Clinton? No, thanks. Kamala Harris, no thanks. Perhaps voters get confused because, unless the woman is a Democrat, liberals belittle them every chance they get, as was the case with Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Tulsi Gabbard.
The GOP has some amazing women in the party right now, and I would love for one of them to emerge from the pack to get the nod. Initially, I was sure that Trump was going to have Nikki Haley or Kristi Noem as his VP, launching them as the 2028 presidential candidate, but the primary race did not turn out as I initially thought, with JD Vance emerging as Trump’s VP. Michelle, you are wrong, dead wrong. We are clearly ready for a female president, but it has to be a quality candidate, not just someone who checks all the boxes.
