Obama: Hillary Clinton is treated differently because she's a woman

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last updated 2 November 2016

Campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Ohio on Tuesday, President Obama said the Democratic presidential nominee is "consistently treated differently than just about any other candidate I see out there."

Women are looked down upon when they do things that would be considered "ambitious" by men, the president said, and there's a "reason why we haven't had a woman president before." He told the men in the crowd to "ask yourself if you're having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we're just not used to it?" Like everyone else, Clinton has made mistakes, Obama continued, and there's "nobody in this public arena over the course of 30 years who doesn't make some. She is a fundamentally good and decent person who know what she's doing." Obama also took aim at Donald Trump's claim to be a champion of the little people; you can watch that below. Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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