House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the idea of sexism in the presidential campaign, saying Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is “bigger than all of it,” and women won’t suffer a setback if she loses.
“I don’t think it’s a step back at all,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said in an interview with Judy Woodruff for broadcast on PBS’s “NewsHour” tonight.
“A woman is down to the wire in contention for the presidential nominee. I think that Sen. Clinton’s courage and — you know she still may win this — but whatever the outcome, new ground has been broken, and it won’t be left broken. It will be built upon.”
Pelosi noted that the delegate-selection process, not the popular vote, will determine whether Illinois Sen. Barack Obama or Clinton, a New York senator, wins the party’s nomination.
“The person who has the most delegates becomes the nominee of the party,” Pelosi said. “It’s not been about the popular vote.”
