In 2020, Democrats Expect a Female Front-Runner. Or Three.

A choice of female candidates could potentially divide voters determined to nominate a woman ...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York campaigned in the early primary state of New Hampshire on Thursday,
while Senator Kamala Harris of California was poised to visit similarly crucial South Carolina and Iowa. And Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts left little doubt about her intentions when she released a genetic test indicating she has Native American ancestry — a move to blunt Mr. Trump’s taunts alleging she had mischaracterized her heritage.

These women are beginning to offer themselves as potential presidents at a time when stark divides around gender are shaping the midterm campaigns: A record number of women are running for Congress, mainly on the Democratic side, and polls show women favoring Democrats by a huge margin.

If multiple women run, no one Democrat could monopolize the vision of breaking a glass ceiling, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. And any Democratic woman might face anxiety, expressed quietly by some concerned party members, about the ferocity with which Mr. Trump has savaged his female critics.

Mayor London Breed of San Francisco, the largest American city with an elected female mayor, said Democrats had been rallying to female candidates in the midterms and there was an opportunity — “now more than ever”

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