Was sexism the cause of Vice-President Kamala Harris’ upsetting outcomes? Senior columnist Lin Suling thinks not.
Vice-President Kamala Harris started this race with a huge disadvantage, and there just wasn’t enough time to turn that around.SINGAPORE – The 2024 election looks eerily similar to 2016’s, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump despite being the favourite going into the race. Which begs the question: Can a woman never hope to be US president?the White House, and the Republicans both houses of Congress, even as America waits for a winner to be called.
But at the heart of it, she was seen as cold, calculated and unlikable – although many pointed out that the bar was unfairly higher for her because she was a woman. In comparison, Trump could get away with the most outrageous, misogynistic comments. More than seven in 10 Americans thought the country has been heading in the wrong direction. More Americans – even in middle- and higher-income households – lived pay cheque to pay cheque in 2023 than in 2019, according to a Bank of America Institute study.
Compared with Trump, who has had the benefit of being president for one term and gaining national name recognition, Ms Harris was the underdog who had to establish who she was and what she stood for. This is a tall order to beat in four months. Much of this may come down to this: Abortion was just not the powerful and emotive vote-getting issue it was inwhere it was credited for beating back a Republican wave. Being a woman made Ms Harris the perfect advocate for reproductive rights, yet that advantage apparently counted for little.
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