After the AP announced that Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination, feminist reporters fueled her campaign with positive press about the "history" she had made. During a June 6, 2016 press availability shown live on CNN, NPR's Tamara Keith gushed:
“Madame Secretary, last night when you took stage in Sacramento, there was a woman standing next to me who was absolutely sobbing. And she said, you know, ‘It’s time. It’s past time.’ And you see the women — you see people here and people just come up to you and they get tears in their eyes. Do you feel — do you feel the weight of what this means for people?”