Warren says voters said they'd have backed her for president if she 'had a penis': Book

Cami Mondeaux

August 13, 01:43 PM August 13, 01:43 PM

In a forthcoming book detailing the experiences of female candidates on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, then-candidate Elizabeth Warren revealed that several voters crudely told her they would vote for her — but only if she was a man.

Those sentiments echoed among several voters, with many telling campaign workers for the Massachusetts senator that the country would “never have a woman president.”

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"'I lost it,' this organizer told me," wrote NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali in her book Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House … Yet. "But that was the vibe. Women and men alike, both as explicitly as that but also implicitly, would just say, 'Look, I think it’s great what you’re doing … but America — it’s just not gonna happen.'"

"Everyone comes up to me and says, 'I would vote for you, if you had a penis,'" the book quotes Warren as saying.

The anecdotes highlight a larger struggle that Warren and other female candidates had while vying for the Democratic nomination, according to the book. And that struggle was figuring out how to convince the country to elect a woman.

“In the end, she couldn’t,” Vitali wrote.

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Warren’s experiences mirrored similar arguments from Hillary Clinton when she ran as the Democratic presidential nominee against former President Donald Trump in 2016. After losing the election, Clinton pointed to sexism as a contributing factor to her defeat.

Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House … Yet is set to be released on Aug. 23.