• TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Well the woman who made this statement is the wife of a former president. We cannot call her Obama, there already is an “Obama”. The other candidate of relevance was Clinton, another wife of a former president. Current woman politicians of note for some reason get referred to as acronyms, AOC and MTG for example.

    You’re point doesn’t really hold up because news agencies are going to try to avoid obvious confusion.

    Kamala was also reffered to as Harris, but that may have been a result of her regularly pronouncing her first name differently throughout her campaign.