--- title: Hillary Clinton Pledges Help for Grimes, Nunn, Burke, Tennant, Hagan description: Calling out Senate and gubernatorial candidates by name, Clinton pledges to help get every woman on the ballot elected canonical: https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/ author: Jay Newton-Small article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-19T17:14:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:40.704Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Pledges Help for Grimes, Nunn, Burke, Tennant, Hagan og:description: Calling out Senate and gubernatorial candidates by name, Clinton pledges to help get every woman on the ballot elected og:url: https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd0b0216bc01c942/6986a465169ab004a727b47f/hillary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3397 og:image:height: 1911 og:image:alt: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum annual Issues Conference in Washington on Sept. 19, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Pledges Help for Grimes, Nunn, Burke, Tennant, Hagan twitter:description: Calling out Senate and gubernatorial candidates by name, Clinton pledges to help get every woman on the ballot elected twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd0b0216bc01c942/6986a465169ab004a727b47f/hillary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Pledges to Campaign for Female Democratic Candidates > Sponsored content. 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Jim Bourg—Reuters  by [Jay Newton-Small](https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small Sep 19, 2014 5:14 PM UTC Hillary Clinton plunged back into the political waters Friday by pledging to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November. “I can’t think of a better way to make the House work again than electing every woman on the ballot,” Clinton told the Democratic Women’s Leadership Forum, a group she helped start more than 20 years ago with former Second Lady Tipper Gore. “There are 10 women running for the Senate, six women running for governor and I wish I could vote for all of them.” Clinton called out several candidates by name: Senate challengers Michelle Nunn in Georgia, Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky and West Virginia’s Natalie Tennant, incumbent Sens. Kay Hagan in North Carolina and Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, and House candidate Staci Appel in Iowa. The former Secretary of State particularly tout former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke, who is challenging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. “Burke she is offering a choice between more angry gridlock,” Clinton said, “and… smart progressive policies.” Clinton said she wanted to see a movement of women rise up to take back the government. “We’re in the home stretch and it all comes down on who shows up to vote,” she told the crowd of female Democratic organizers, many of whom will be relied on to turn out female voters in November. “This country will maintain a level playing field so whether you’re the grandchild of a president, or the grandchild of a janitor, whether you were born in a city or a small rural village, no matter who you are you have the right to inherit the American dream.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Pledges to Campaign for Female Democratic Candidates","datePublished":"2014-09-19T17:14:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:40.704Z","description":"Calling out Senate and gubernatorial candidates by name, Clinton pledges to help get every woman on the ballot elected","url":"https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","2014","2016","Alison Lundergan Grimes","Midterm Elections"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd0b0216bc01c942/6986a465169ab004a727b47f/hillary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jay Newton-Small","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd0b0216bc01c942/6986a465169ab004a727b47f/hillary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum annual Issues Conference in Washington on Sept. 19, 2014.","caption":"Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum annual Issues Conference in Washington on Sept. 19, 2014.","creditText":"Jim Bourg—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3404189/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-elections/","name":"Hillary Clinton Pledges to Campaign for Female Democratic Candidates"}}]}] ```