For Martha Kennedy Morales, it was a narrow defeat – and one that brought their unexpected popularity from the highest point: The 8-year-old from the US state of Maryland had applied in their class for the class spokesman and was subject to his own words with only one Vote less.
„As I know it, it’s not easy to apply for a job that is usually only reported to boys,“ the student read a little later in a letter addressed to her, which was signed personally by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have.
Clinton was the first woman in US history to be elected president by one of the major parties. She was defeated by Republican candidate Donald Trump for electoral votes in 2016 , despite gaining more votes than the entrepreneur.
„I was very surprised“
In the school election, the offices are created as in the major US policy. The class president is called president. Martha was automatically defeated by her narrow defeat of the fourth grader who decided the election for themselves. He is now subordinate to him as Vice-President. The work, which is now waiting for the student, she described as follows: „If House and Senate do not agree, I’m the tip of the scales and I have meetings with the President. That’s all I do.“
The Washington Post, who first reported on the letter and talked to Morales, wrote that the student had delivered such a good explanation of the job as the real US vice president could have.
The girl’s father had reported on his daughter’s campaign on Facebook, a friend of Clinton’s saw the posts and told the former Minister and First Lady about it. Clinton’s spokesman, Nick Merrill, confirmed the authenticity of the letter to the student.
The girl said that her mother had picked her up from school and pulled the letter out of her pocket. She opened it right away. „I was very surprised.“
sourse: spiegel.de
