2020 presidential election

Elizabeth Warren has promised that, if elected President of the United States, at least half of her cabinet will be women and non-binary people. The Massachusetts senator vowed that her administration would be committed to diversity and inclusion, in a Medium post discussing how she would appoint new government officials in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency. Currently, of Trump’s 23 cabinet members, just four are women. She wrote: “Our government officials can best serve the American public when they reflect the diversity of the country itself. “The federal government does...

Bernie Sanders, while trying to insist that a woman could be elected president of the United States, said that being a woman is a “problem” in a presidential election. Warren has claimed that Sanders told her during a discussion in 2018 that a woman couldn’t win the 2020 election. She told CNN: “I thought a woman could win; he disagreed.” Sanders has denied ever making the comment, but he faced questions on a potential female president in an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio on Sunday, January 19. Asked if he...