During CNN’s Tuesday night primary coverage of Nebraska and West Virginia Van Jones pondered why “there's a pouncing I don’t see with others,” when it comes to Hillary Clinton. “We can sometimes get used to this and forget, but we've never had a woman do this,” stated Jones using the classic ‘it’s because she’s a woman’ argument. And what example did Jones use to back up his claim? A conversation he once had with a cab driver.
“I tell you, when I had that conversation with the guy in the cab and he had something great to say about Bernie and Trump and Obama, but not one good thing to say about Hillary Clinton,” Jones recounted, “the odds of that are weird.”
It didn’t take long for CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger to pop a hole in Jones’ theory. Borger said the path for Hillary could be rough since she could become the first woman president, but said it was too early to tell if there was a bias there. “I think what is more relevant here is that Hillary Clinton has been around an awfully long time,” she said offering another explanation for Jones’ concerns, “and the reason your cab driver might not love her is there may have been things about the Clintons he didn’t like over the years.”