EDITORIAL — Is the US ready for a woman president?

Giving in to the suggestions from his own Democratic Party, US President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw from the US presidential race.

The 81-year-old said he was acting in the "best interest of my party and the country" by no longer seeking the top post after weeks of pressure to quit from his own party members following his dismal performance during the presidential debates and repeated gaffes in public.

Biden has also endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the official candidate of Democratic Party.

Now the question on the minds of many is how willing is the US to elect its first woman president? Hillary Clinton provided the first possible answer to this question when she ran for president in 2016 and the answer was no. She got close enough but still no.

Then history was made when Harris was elected the first woman US vice president in 2020, something that was supposed to be one for the US history books, but it was buried in the usual crush of political developments, including the “election stealing” issues fabricated by 2020 election loser, Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Is it time for a woman to finally ascend to the highest position in the US? And by de facto situation the default leader of the Free World?

But then we are jumping the gun twice here. First, as of this writing there isn’t yet any guarantee Harris will be the official Democratic Party nominee. There isn’t yet a show of support for her from the party, considering that other nominees are waiting in the wings as well.

Second, all things being fair, there is always the chance that Trump will win a second term.

There’s really no telling where this will go now. Trump’s campaign got several boosts recently after his failed assassination attempt --which some see as an act of divine intervention, the dismissal of the top-secret documents case against him, and now Biden’s withdrawal from the race.