As Hillary Clinton prepared this week to become the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president by a major political party, her campaign reposted a video ad on Twitter originally produced by the Hillary for President campaign late in 2015. The ad, titled “44 boys is too many”, features young girls reading letters they had written to the former first lady encouraging her in her run for president. The title comes from one of the girl’s letters featured in the ad. “Forty-four boys” refers to the number of presidents so far, all male, up to and including Barack Obama.
The tweet accompanying the ad quotes from another girl’s letter and reads, “It is ridiculous that there has never been a female president before.” As this letter is displayed on the screen, however, additional lines from the letter are visible. The young letter writer goes on to say, “Girls are smarter than [boys]” and “Girls, rule, boys, drool”. A screenshot of the letter from the video is below:
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