THIS HOUR TONIGHT FOR A SPECIAL LAST WORD ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO
INSPIRED HER TO BM AECOME A LAW
PROFESSOR HERSELF AND THEN RUN
FOR CONGRESS BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT
GIRLS DO.
GIRLS DO. IT’S NOT IT FEELING WE HAD
WATCHING PRESIDENT KENNEDY WIN
THE ELECTION IN 1960 AND REALIZE
ALTOGETHER AS ONCE AS A COUNTRY,
YES, A ROMAN CATHOLIC COULD BE
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, WHICH WAS NOT BELIEVED
POSSIBLE UNTIL JOHN KENNEDY DID
IT.
IT. UNTIL JFK WON THE PRESIDENCY BY
LESS THAN 1% OF THE VOTE.
YOU COULD FEEL AMERICAN PROGRESS
IN THAT MOMENT.
YOU COULD FEEL A MUCH MORE
DRAMATIC STEP IN AMERICAN
PROGRESS WHEN BARACK OBAMA WON
THE IOWA CAUCUSES IN 2008 IN THE
OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE STATE OF
IOWA.
IOWA. AND THEN AS TEARS OF JOY FELL
FROM MILLIONS OF EYES AROUND THE
COUNTRY BARACK OBAMA JOINED BY
HIS FAMILY GAVE A VICTORY SPEECH
IN GRANT PARK IN CHICAGO THE
NIGHT HE WON THE PRESIDENCY.
THOSE WERE THE TEARS OF JOY FOR
A JOLT OF PROGRESS THAT MANY OF
US THOUGHT WE WOULD NOT LIVE TO
SEE, A BLACK MAN STANDING IN A
PARK NAMED FOR THE GENERAL WHO
WON THE WAR THAT ENDED SLAVERY
IN THIS COUNTRY, ACCEPTING
VICTORY IN A PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN.
CAMPAIGN. YOU HAD A RIGHT TO FEEL THEN
THAT WOMEN WERE NEXT.
YOU HAD A RIGHT TO FEEL THAT
SURELY A WOMAN COULD BREAK
THROUGH THE BARRIER BLOCKING
THEM FROM THE PRESIDENCY.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YOU HAD A
RIGHT TO BELIEVE AS I DID THAT
IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WOULD
NOMINATE A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT
AND A WOMAN FOR VICE PRESIDENT
BECAUSE THE MOST QUALIFIED FIELD
OF WOMEN CANDIDATES IN HISTORY
WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
FOUR UNITED STATES SENATORS TWO
OF THEM REPRESENTING THE TWO
BIGGEST STATES WITH DEMOCRATIC
SENATORS, CALIFORNIA AND NEW
YORK.
YORK. AND OTHER TWO FROM STATES THAT
HAD DELIVERED DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT BEFORE,
MINNESOTA AND MASSACHUSETTS.
AND NOW THEY ARE ALL GONE FROM
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, AND
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO WONDER WHAT
AMERICA IS CAPABLE OF.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO WONDER WHAT
IT TAKES FOR A WOMAN TO WIN THE
PRESIDENCY.
PRESIDENCY. THE WORLD HAS PASSED US BY ON
THIS POINT OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
INDIA ELECTED A WOMAN PRIME
MINISTER IN 1966.
ISRAEL ELECTED A WOMAN PRIME
MINISTER IN 1969.
THE UNITED KINGDOM ELECTED PRIME
MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER IN
1979.
1979. PAKISTAN ELECTED THEIR PRIME
MINISTER IN 1998.
EVEN MALAWI WHERE ONLY 7% OF
GIRLS GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL
SHE WAS ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
AND ASENDED TO THE PRESIDENCY
WHEN THE PRESIDENT DIED IN 2012.
MALAWI HAS HAD FIVE PRESIDENTS,
FIVE.
FIVE. AND ONE OF THEM WAS A WOMAN.
THE UNITED STATES IS ON ITS 45th
MALE PRESIDENT, AND YOU HAVE A
RIGHT TO BE TIRED OF MEN RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENT.
FOR PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE TIRED OF
WATCHING MEN TAKE THE OATH OF
OFFICE.
OFFICE. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SHED A TEAR
TODAY OVER WHERE WOMEN ARE IN
AMERICAN POLITICS OR AS NANCY
PELOSI PUT IT TODAY, ALMOST CRY
WHEN SHE WAS ASKED WHEN SHE WAS
ASKED ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN
DROPPING OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
RACE.
RACE. >> EVERY TIME I GET INTRODUCED
AS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN I
ALMOST CRY BECAUSE I THINK I
WISH THAT WERE NOT TRUE.
I ALSO WISH WE HAD A WOMAN
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND WE CAME VERY CLOSE TO DOING
THAT, A WOMAN WHO WAS BETTER
QUALIFIED THAN SO MANY PEOPLE
WHO HAVE SOUGHT THAT OFFICE AND
EVEN WON IT.
BUT I DO -- I THINK THAT THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE READY.
>> SHE’S SO RIGHT.
ELIZABETH WARREN IS BETTER
QUALIFIED THAN SO MANY PEOPLE
WHO HAVE RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
AND BETTER QUALIFIED THAN SO
MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE WON THE
PRESIDENCY.
PRESIDENCY. BUT THAT WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH.
>> SO I ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING
THAT I AM SUSPENDING MY CAMPAIGN
FOR PRESIDENT.
FOR PRESIDENT. I SAY THIS WITH A DEEP SENSE OF
GRATITUDE FOR EVERY SINGLE
PERSON WHO GOT IN THIS FIGHT,
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO TRIED ON
A NEW IDEA, EVERY SINGLE PERSON
WHO JUST MOVED A LITTLE IN THEIR
NOTION OF WHAT A PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES SHOULD LOOK
LIKE.
LIKE. >> LIZELIZABETH WARREN SAID SHE
NO REGRETS.
NO REGRETS. >> I HAVE NO REGRETS AT ALL.
THIS HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF A
LIFETIME.
LIFETIME. 10 YEARS AGO I WAS TEACHING A
FEW BLOCKS FROM HERE AND TALKING
ABOUT WHAT WAS BROKEN IN AMERICA
AND IDEAS FOR HOW TO FIX IT, AND
PRETTY MUCH NOBODY WANTED TO
HEAR IT.
HEAR IT. AND I’VE HAD A CHANCE TO GET OUT
THERE AND TALK WITH MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. >> ELIZABETH WARREN SAID TODAY
AND REPEATED TO RACHEL TONIGHT
THAT SHE’S NOT READY TO ENDORSE
JOE BIDEN OR BERNIE SANDERS FOR
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. THEY EACH SPOKE TO ELIZABETH
WARREN BY PHONE YESTERDAY, AND
THEY EACH ISSUED THE STANDARD
TWEET SALUTING THE LATEST
CANDIDATE TO LEAVE THE RACE
TODAY.
TODAY. AND THEY ARE EACH HOPING FOR
ELIZABETH WARREN’S ENDORSEMENT.
ELIZABETH WARREN WAS ASKED TODAY
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO STAND IN HER
VOTING BOOTH IN CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS, ON TUESDAY AND
SEE HER NAME ON THE BALLOT FOR
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> I STOOD IN THAT VOTING BOOTH
AND I LOOKED DOWN AND I SAW MY
NAME ON THE BALLOT, AND I
THOUGHT, WOW, KIDDO, YOU’RE NOT
IN OKLAHOMA ANYMORE.
THAT IT REALLY WAS A MOMENT OF
THINKING ABOUT HOW MY MOTHER AND
DAD IF THEY WERE STILL HERE
WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS.
I HAD GOTTEN A LONG E-MAIL FROM
NEPHEW AND HOW PROUD HIS DAD, MY
BROTHER IS, AND HOW THEY ALL HAD
THEIR PLANS TO VOTE AND MET
OTHER PEOPLE.
OTHER PEOPLE. IT IS -- IT’S THESE LONG TIMES
FOR THAT MOMENT STANDING IN THE
BOOTH I MISS MY MOM AND MY
DADDY.
DADDY. >> THAT’S RIGHT, KIDS, THAT
FEELING NEVER GOES AWAY.
NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE THERE
WILL BE TIMES YOU MISS YOUR MOM
AND DADDY EVEN WHEN YOU’RE 70
YEARS OLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN
YOU’RE 70 YEARS OLD AND LOOKING
AT YOUR NAME ON A BALLOT FOR
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
ELIZABETH WARREN WENT ON AT
LENGTH ABOUT HER GRATITUDE TO
HER CAMPAIGN STAFF AND HER
VOLUNTEERS ALL AROUND THE
COUNTRY WHO UP ENDED THEIR LIVES
TO DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO HER
CAMPAIGN AS HAVE THE STAFF AND
VOLUNTEERS OF EVERY OTHER
CAMPAIGN.
CAMPAIGN. ELIZABETH WARREN SAID
DISAPPOINTING THOSE VOLUNTEERS
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WAS ONE OF
THE HARDEST PARTS OF DECIDING TO
END HER PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN,
AND THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE
THAT WAS UNIQUELY HARD FOR
ELIZABETH WARREN TODAY.
>> ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS OF
THIS IS ALL THOSE PINKIE
PROMISES AND ALL THOSE LITTLE
GIRLS WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
WAIT FOUR MORE YEARS.
THAT’S GOING TO BE HARD.
>> TWO OF THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF
THE WARREN CAMPAIGN WERE
ELIZABETH WARREN’S WILLINGNESS
TO POSE FOR AN UNLIMITED NUMBER
OF SELFIES AFTER HER CAMPAIGN
EVENTS INCLUDING ONE NIGHT IN
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK IN
GREENWICH VILLAGE WHERE SHE
POSED FOR SELFIES FOR FOUR HOURS
AFTER THAT EVENT FOR THOUSANDS
OF PEOPLE.
OF PEOPLE. THE OTHER UNIQUE FEATURE OF THE
WARREN CAMPAIGN WERE THOSE
PINKIE PROMISES.
PINKIE PROMISES. >> HELLO.
>> HELLO. WHAT’S YOUR NAME?
>> THIS IS CAROLINE.
>> HI, CAROLINE.
>> SHE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT ONE
DAY, TOO.
DAY, TOO. >> GOOD.
>> GOOD. SO CAROLINE, MY NAME’S
ELIZABETH.
ELIZABETH. I’M RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT GIRLS DO.
PINKIE PROMISE TO REMEMBER?
CAN YOU DO PINKIE PROMISE.
LET’S SEE.
LET’S SEE. CAN YOU DO IT?
I THINK YOU’VE GOT IT.
THERE WE GO.
ALL RIGHT, CAROLINE, WE’RE IN
THIS TOGETHER.
THIS TOGETHER. TAKE CARE, SWEETIE.
BYE-BYE.
BYE-BYE. THE LITTLE GIRLS ARE ONE OF THE
BEST PARTS OF THIS.
>> AND ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF