Ms. Gillibrand has also seemed eager to make inroads with black audiences who are central to any Democratic presidential candidate. Ms. Maxwell said Ms. Gillibrand’s team reached out after Mrs. Clinton appeared on her show this fall. “I think the entire world is now ready for this conversation,” Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview. That Ms. Gillibrand would become the latest female lawmaker with an elevated profile in the Trump age is little surprise to Democrats. “I need a cigarette,” Ms. Gillibrand joked, adding an expletive her sons are not supposed to hear.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2017 18:08 UTC