"I've got a lot of time on my hands."
 | By Paula Szuchman Managing Producer, Opinion Audio |
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I won’t lie. Listening to Hillary Clinton talk about 2016 is hard for me. |
Four years ago, around this time, I was home watching the election results with my two young daughters. I’m embarrassed to admit that the next morning, it was my 6-year-old who was doing the comforting: “I no your upset about Donald trump winning and hillary loozing. But it’s ok. We still have our house and stuff, and what maters is our family,” read the note she left by my bed. |
She’s 10 now, and she screamed when she saw Hillary on my screen a few days ago doing an interview with Kara Swisher. We were recording today’s episode of Sway. Being in that virtual room with Hillary was bittersweet for me — why is this woman in her attic in Chappaqua right now and not in the Oval Office? — but inspiring for my daughter. I’m holding on to that. |
The 2016 election is “still front and center in people’s psyches,” Hillary told Kara during a wide-ranging conversation that covered what went wrong in 2016 and what she believes will go right in 2020. “There is something deeply unsettling to a strata of American voters about a woman getting that close to being president.” |
There were plenty of funny moments; “I’ve got a lot of time on my hands,” she said, a shelf of old VHS cassettes visible behind her. And moments of honesty; “I just want to be able to exhale.” And of course, moments that took me back to Hillary, the great campaigner: |
Kara: Do you think a woman president in the United States would handle the pandemic better? |
Hillary: I have no doubt, especially if it were me. |
I want that confidence for my own daughters, and I also want to exhale. |
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