A moderator at a Democratic primary debate Thursday evening asked Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whether he had any misgivings about running against Hillary Clinton given that she could very well be the first female president of the United States.
“Senator,” said PBS Gwen Ifill, “do you worry at all that you will be the instrument of thwarting history, as Senator Clinton keeps claiming, that she may be the first woman president?”
The Vermont lawmaker, who is both the son of Jewish immigrants, and a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” responded by saying he believes his candidacy is itself pretty historic.
“Well, you know,” the senator said. “I think from an historical point of view, somebody with my background, somebody with my views, somebody who has spent his entire life taking on the big money interests – I think a Sanders victory would be of some historical accomplishment as well.”
