Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Kirsten Gillibrand Runs for President by Hannah T.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/us/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-president-feminist.html

Kirsten Gillibrand, a senator for the state of New York has made the decision to run for the upcoming 2020 presidential election. Kirsten Gillibrand is running for the Democratic political party. After Trump was elected back in the previous election in 2016, she attended a Women’s March where she was given the inspiration to run for president. Because of this, her candidacy is very focused on women as a whole. She believes that the United States would be a lot stronger of a country if women’s voices were heard by more.

Throughout her political career, Kirsten Gillibrand has made it a duty of hers to call out suspects of sexual misconduct, such as Bill Clinton and Al Franken. She’s also made it a dity of hers to call out sexism from others. She is very clearly not afraid to do whatever it takes to defend women as a whole.

How do you feel about Kirsten Gillibrand running for president? Would she be the best choice to be the first female president of the United States? What kinds of issues do you feel she would focus the most on? What kind of issues do you feel she would focus the least on?

2 comments:

  1. I feel that by her choosing to run for president, she is helping Donald Trump win the 2020 election. This is just another democratic candidate that is going to split up the democratic voters. I think that Hillary had a better chance than she will, Clinton was more well known than she is right now, so she doesn't have as good of chance. If her main point is women, I would imagine that she would focus on more equality for women.

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  2. I honestly feel we have bigger problems than women's rights... if that is her main goal then i think she isn't what we need. I agree with Peyton that Hillary had better chances than she will. I think we need our first woman president to be a strong one that focuses on a broad range of issues and is not a feminist. I feel our country has bigger issues than women's rights because if you really pay attention women are not treated too unfairly. Just my opinion though...

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