Former President Clinton said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believes the U.S. is set to have a woman-led executive branch “pretty soon.”
“I still think we’ll have a … female president pretty soon,” Clinton said in an interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning” with the outlet’s Tracy Smith.
Vice President Harris, who recently lost her bid for the White House to President-elect Trump, would have been the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to secure the presidency if she had won. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also would have been the first woman to hold the office of the presidency if she had won in 2016.
Both Hillary Clinton and Harris faced off against Trump in their respective races. However, he defeated them both.
The former president said in his interview with Tracy Smith that he believes “it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win” the presidency and said that the country has “moved to the right.”
“I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she woulda walked in, just like Obama did,” Clinton said in the interview.
Clinton campaigned for Harris during the past election cycle but drew criticism for comments he made in late October at a Harris event in which he defended Israel’s killing of civilians and said Hamas had been using them as human shields.
