As the 2020 Democratic presidential-primary race took shape, many in the party were apprehensive about nominating a woman. Neera Tanden, then the president of the Center for American Progress and now President Joe Biden's Domestic Policy Council director, worried that 'there's a fear that if misogyny beat Clinton, it can beat other women.' Several female candidates, including Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, competed for the nomination. When they lost, concerns about the power of sexism became even more entrenched.
Although isolating the impact of gender is difficult-we'll never know whether a Henry Clinton would have outperformed Hillary Clinton in 2016-existing research indicates that today's voters do not systematically discriminate against women at the polls.
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