When Hillary Clinton ended her first campaign for the presidency in June 2008,

her speech nodded to what her win would have meant, a historic first

that's still out of reach.

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time,

thanks to you.

It's got about 18 million cracks in it.

And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the

sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time.

After a long tough primary fight with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination,

Clinton bowed out and supported her opponent.

Let's declare together in one voice right here, right now,

that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president.

Clinton tried again.

Eight years later, that time she became her party's

nominee, but ultimately lost.

Now, I know, I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling,

but someday someone will and hopefully and trying to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling since before they had the right to vote.

Suffragist Victoria Woodhall challenged Ulysses S Grant in 1872.

And there was Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in 1972.

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country

although I am a woman and I'm equally proud of that.

And now looking to 2024 there is another woman running for the highest office in the land. I don't put up with boys and when you kick back it hurts them more if you're

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