NBC’s Holt Touts Hope Voters Will Think ‘Wow, We Might See the First Female President’ with Hillary

Curtis Houck | March 1, 2016
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NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt led the network’s special Super Tuesday coverage in which he twice attempted to promote the belief that voters should come to the realization that they have the opportunity to elect the first female president after electing the first African-American in 2008. 

While awaiting Ted Cruz’s Super Tuesday speech, Holt turned to Today co-host Savannah Guthrie and exclaimed: “[E]ight years ago, we were talking about wow, we may see the first African-American President. After tonight, will people begin to talk in terms of wow, we might see the first female president?”