With the presidential election just a day away, reporters following Hillary Clinton around have precious time to ask her questions before she potentially gets elected president. BBC’s Kim Ghattas decided to use this winnowing opportunity to ask Hillary if “America understands you and is ready to accept you?”
“It seems to me that over time, you’ve been often ahead of your time. You’ve been sometimes misunderstood. You have encountered a lot of prejudice. Do you think that today America understands you and is ready to accept you?” Ghattas asked Clinton.
The Democratic presidential nominee answered, “Well, I think I have some work to do to bring the country together. As I have been saying in these speeches in the last few days, I really do want to be the president for everybody, people who vote for me, people who vote against me, because I think that these splits, these divides that have been not only exposed but exacerbated by the campaign on the other side are ones that we really do have to bring the country together.”
Ghattas asked the tough follow-up question, “Can you do that?” Clinton responded, “Yes, absolutely.”