Kamala Harris laughs and says 'I'm clearly a woman' when asked if sexism will decide the election

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by NBC's Hallie Jackson wherefore she doesn't thin successful much to the history-making quality of her candidacy.

Jackson sat down with Harris, who's disconnected the run way today, for an interrogation that aired Tuesday evening.  

Harris would beryllium the country's archetypal pistillate president and the archetypal pistillate president of color. 

'Well, I'm intelligibly a woman. I don't request to constituent that retired to anyone,' the vice president answered laughing. 

'The constituent that astir radical truly attraction astir is tin you bash the job? And bash you person a program to really absorption connected them?' the Democratic nominee added.

Jackson pointed retired that Harris is polling worse with men than her Democratic predecessor, President Joe Biden, and asked if sexism was astatine play. 

'Let maine conscionable archer you something. You've travel to my events. And you volition spot determination are men and women astatine those events, whether it beryllium tiny events oregon events with 10,000 people,' Harris said. 

'So the acquisition that I americium having is 1 successful which it is wide that careless of someone's gender, they privation to cognize that their president has a program to little costs, that their president has a program to unafraid America successful the discourse of our presumption astir the world. They privation a president of the United States who honors our military, who understands the value of America's enactment astir planetary rules and norms, and that is careless of gender,' she continued. 

Jackson past asked if Harris saw 'sexism arsenic a origin successful this contention astatine all.' 

'I don't deliberation of it that way,' Harris answered. 

'My situation is the situation of making definite I tin speech with and perceive to arsenic galore voters arsenic imaginable and gain their vote,' she said. 'And I volition ne'er presume that anyone successful our state should elite a person based connected their sex oregon their race.'

She said leaders needs to gain votes 'based connected substance and what they volition bash to code challenges and to animate radical to cognize that their aspirations and their ambitions tin and volition beryllium achieved done the opportunnity to bash that.' 

Former President Donald Trump already won 1 statesmanlike contention against a pistillate candidate, erstwhile archetypal lady, U.S. legislator and caput of State, Hillary Clinton, who was the country's archetypal pistillate to go a large party's statesmanlike nominee. 

Eight years later, Harris is trying to interruption the solid ceiling again. 

She could bash truthful with much women than ever. 

In 2020, President Joe Biden acceptable a grounds nationally by winning women 57 percent to Trump's 42 percent - a 15-point gap. 

'This volition beryllium the 3rd consecutive statesmanlike rhythm wherever the sex spread approaches 25 points, and it could beryllium adjacent much than that this time,' Republican pollster Robert Blizzard told Politico for a caller communicative astir the sex gap. 'Each campaigner and each run is present increasing ever-more reliant connected their gender, if you will, to get them crossed the decorativeness line.'