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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hell, at least one, Shirley Chisholm, campaigned to be on the Democrat ballot in 1977. That counts as running for president, even if they don't win the primary right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That’s why I specified “general”. I’m not sure a Black woman was ever on a general election ballot