Rep. James Clyburn said Sunday that former first lady Michelle Obama was “absolutely correct” in claiming that America is not ready for a woman president.
“If you look at the history, we demonstrated that we were not ready,” Clyburn (D-SC) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “These are incredible women who have run: Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and I think that we are getting there. That’s why we can’t afford to turn the clock back. We’ve taken one, two and three steps forward and let’s not take two, three and four steps backwards, which is what we are doing in these elections.”
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