This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Reading the news from Washington and London today, it appears that, come January, it is likely that the elected leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom (as well as Germany, Norway, Bangladesh, Namibia, Poland and Myanmar) will be female.
— Republicans just can't help themselves from overreaching on every Clinton scandal — Matthew Yglesias | Vox
" ... If you ever find yourself wondering how it is that Bill Clinton was caught having had a sexual affair with a White House intern and came out more popular than ever, here's the answer — just as the Clintons and the media are locked in a pointless, toxic cycle of scandal and cover-up, the Republican Party is locked in its own cycle of pathological overreach. ...
— Trump offers assurances to GOP rank-and-file in Congress — Erica Werner and Richard Lardner | Associated Press | Salt Lake Tribune
" ... Trump defended himself against some of his harshest Senate critics. Addressing Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse, he said, 'Surely, you don't want Clinton.' Sasse's spokesman, in a statement, said the senator considers the two presidential choices as a 'Dumpster fire,' adding that 'nothing has changed.'
"In one testy exchange, Trump recognized Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona as a lawmaker critical of him. Flake referenced Trump's criticism last year of his colleague, Sen. John McCain, who was captured and spent 5 years in a Vietnamese prison.
"Flake said he wanted to talk to Trump about those statements. The exchange left Flake unwilling to back the nominee.
" 'My position remains, I want to support the nomination. I really do. I just can't support him given the things that he's said,' Flake told reporters later. ..."
— Britain will have first female prime minister since Margaret Thatcher — Griff Witte | The Washington Post
"LONDON — The race to be Britain's next prime minister was whittled to two on Thursday, with Conservative Party lawmakers assuring that the country will have a female head of government — the nation's first since Margaret Thatcher stepped down more than a quarter century ago.
"The contest will pit the home affairs secretary, Theresa May, against Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom in a race that features contenders who were on opposite sides of last month's European Union referendum. ..."
— Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May win Tory MPs' vote on leadership — Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason | The Guardian
" ... Leadsom's campaign chief, Tim Loughton, said: 'It was absolutely right that this would be an all-women shortlist. We have two strong women. We can now give the party a real choice. A remain woman; a leave woman. They both happened to go to state schools. They are both women. Hey, that's pretty quirky for the Tory party.' ..."