We asked the reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign to share the most memorable person they met on the campaign trail. Lisa Lerer of AP shares the story of Rosalind Wyman.
It's been a month since Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election and left the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" unshattered. But for the female politicians who blazed the trail before Clinton, they still dream of a woman serving in the Oval Office. Rosalind Wyman is one of them. The 84-year-old was once only the second woman to serve on the Los Angeles City Council and hoped to see the historic election of Clinton. As she told AP political reporter Lisa Lerer, many younger women ssume a woman will one day be elected president, but many older women like Wyman felt this would be their last chance in their lifetime. "This would have been something really historic and I think it's important that we don't lose sight of that particularly given how heated the rhetoric got around gender," Lerer says.