--- title: Hillary Clinton to Spend Election Night Under a Literal Glass Ceiling description: Hillary Clinton will hold her election night celebration at the Javits Center in New York City, which has a literal glass ceiling. canonical: https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-26T21:41:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:42.205Z og:title: Hillary Clinton Wants a Literal Glass Ceiling Over Her on Election Night og:description: There’s nothing subtle about where she’s hosting her party on Nov. 8 og:url: https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295b8e1ada6b4ce2/6988abbbe20a8732d9a92f8e/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Wants a Literal Glass Ceiling Over Her on Election Night twitter:description: There’s nothing subtle about where she’s hosting her party on Nov. 8 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295b8e1ada6b4ce2/6988abbbe20a8732d9a92f8e/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Wants a Literal Glass Ceiling Over Her on Election Night by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 26, 2016 9:41 PM UTC  COCONUT CREEK, FL - Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to and meets Florida voters during a rally at Broward College in Coconut Creek, Florida Tuesday October 25, 2016\. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) COCONUT CREEK, FL - Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to and meets Florida voters during a rally at Broward College in Coconut Creek, Florida Tuesday October 25, 2016\. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Melina Mara—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 26, 2016 9:41 PM UTC [Hillary Clinton](http://motto.time.com/4545366/hillary-clinton-birthday-quotes/) is no stranger to [glass ceilings](http://motto.time.com/4394894/shonda-rhimes-glass-ceiling/). She’s been breaking past them her entire career, and is [well on her way](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-gfk-poll-clinton-appears-cusp-commanding-victory-43084097) to cracking what she [called](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jun/07/hillaryclinton.uselections20081) the “highest, hardest glass ceiling:” the presidency. And she’s taking that sentiment to heart. [According](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-to-spend-election-night-at-javits-center-in-manhattan-230347) to _Politico_, Clinton and her staff sent out a “save the date” memo for her election party, which will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan. The Javits Center has significant relevance for a few reasons. Other than it being in her adopted home state of New York and a massive convention center, the Javits Center is literally made with “[soaring glass ceilings](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-javits-center).” Clinton and her team were not toying with subtlety on this one. Will Clinton enter James Bond-style through the glass ceiling? Or, rather, soar through a glass panel à la Wonder Woman? Maybe there’s even some Harry Potter spell that Clinton could utter, causing the glass to literally shatter and allowing her to effortlessly waltz into the space. [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ The decision to hold the party at the Javits Center also pokes at her opponent, [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4546362/donald-trump-dc-hotel-campaign/). [According](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-javits-center) to _Mother Jones_, Trump attempted to get New York City to approve a convention center at the location early in his career as a real estate developer. He also tried getting the convention center named after his family, but the city ultimately went with a different developer. Trump even [claimed](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-javits-center), “There wouldn’t be a new convention center in New York today if it hadn’t been for the Trumps.” One thing’s clear, however, Clinton is getting ready to shatter the figurative glass ceiling on election day — maybe literally, too. > [](https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/791358173722583040) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Wants a Literal Glass Ceiling Over Her on Election Night","datePublished":"2016-10-26T21:41:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:42.205Z","description":"There’s nothing subtle about where she’s hosting her party on Nov. 8","url":"https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295b8e1ada6b4ce2/6988abbbe20a8732d9a92f8e/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295b8e1ada6b4ce2/6988abbbe20a8732d9a92f8e/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Melina Mara—The Washington Post/Getty Images","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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4546884/hillary-clinton-election-night-glass-ceiling/","name":"Hillary Clinton Wants a Literal Glass Ceiling Over Her on Election Night"}}]}] ```