U.S. presidential election (28): Hillary makes history
Say what you like about Hillary Clinton – and she’s had an extraordinary amount of criticism (most of it undeserved) – but that woman has resilience.
Eight years after conceding defeat to Barack Obama at the end of one set of Democratic primaries and after a bruising further set of primaries in which Sanders has pressed her very hard indeed, she has become the first female presidential candidate of a major American party in the 240-year history of the republic. It is an incredible achievement.
I do so hope that she now trashes Trump and wins the presidency. This is a woman who has spent four years as Secretary of State and the world would be in safe hands. For a flavour of how she would exercise power, read my review of her State Department memoirs here.