A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC Road Warrior and now NBC Capitol
Hill correspondent Ali Vitali who covered the campaign trail every step of the
way-investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that
cycle and those who came before and what it will take for a woman to finally break the glass
ceiling and win the White House. Opening with the moment when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were
finally declared the winners of the 2020 race-the long drawn-out journey towards who would
next inhabit the White House and the resulting and disputed defeat of Donald Trump Electable
is a sweeping look at a lingering question from that Presidential race. Why when we saw more
women run for President of the United States than ever before in our history did we still not
cross that final hurdle? Following the 2020 race minute by minute as the reporter embedded with
Elizabeth Warren Ali Vitali witnessed up-close the way that our most recent election was
unique-not simply for the way in which the incumbent conducted himself but for the ways in
which the field rich with Democrats from all kinds of backgrounds was both modern but also
more of the same. With more female candidates than ever before this was a history-making race
and yet these women-most of them incredibly qualified with decades of public service on their
resumes-dealt once again with a different level of scrutiny than their male counterparts. Woven
throughout is close examination of the treatment of Hillary Clinton Geraldine Ferraro Shirley
Chisholm and those on the right as well. Grappling with ideas around the likeability and
electability issues as well as fundraising hurdles many female candidates face Vitali asks
the same questions she and so many have been grappling with for decades but especially since
Hillary Clinton's devastating defeat in 2016: Why is it so hard for a woman to be taken
seriously as a presidential contender? What will it take for men and women to be held to the
same standard? What happens next? Electable tackles these questions with specific
behind-the-scenes play-by-play detail. Gabbard Harris Williamson Gillibrand Warren
Klobuchar...and then there were none.
