Why Harris’s Barrier-Breaking Bid Feels Nothing Like Hillary Clinton’s

hey still wear suffragist-white outfits and cheer on the prospect of “Madam President.”

But eight years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to lead a major party’s presidential ticket, Democrats are sending American women a more sober and urgent message even as they try to elect another barrier-breaking candidate.

Republican policies, they argue, have had disastrous and once-unthinkable consequences for the health and autonomy of women and their families since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. A second term for former President Donald J. Trump, they warn, would be even more dangerous.