They still wear suffragist-white outfits and cheer on the prospect of “Madam President.”But eight years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to lead a major party’s presidential ticket, Democrats are sending American women a more sober and urgent message even as they try to elect another barrier-breaking candidate.
Republican policies, they argue, have had disastrous and once-unthinkable consequences for the health and autonomy of women and their families since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
A second term for former President Donald J. Trump, they warn, would be even more dangerous.
“Simply put,” Vice President Kamala Harris said this week from the stage of her party’s convention, “they are out of their minds.”
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