#HillarySoQualified

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About

#HillarySoQualified was a hashtag launched by Hillary Clinton's 2016 Democratic Presidential Campaign after her opponent Bernie Sanders claimed she was not qualified to become president. The hashtag was then hijacked by Sanders' supporters who used it ironically to describe Clinton's negative attributes.

Origin

On Wednesday, April 6th, Bernie Sanders stated in a speech that he believed that Hillary Clinton was unqualified to hold the office of president based on her previous decisions in fundraising, the Iraq War, and other judgements.

According to the Washington Post, the statements by Sanders angered a Clinton supporter in Houston named Kim Frederick, who tweets as kimfrederi. In the middle of the night, she tweeted,

#HillarySoQualified she got 8M children insured while you renamed two post office boxes. #ImWithHer -- Kim Frederick (@kimfrederi) April 7, 2016

She tweeted several more times using the hashtag, but then later protected her Twitter stream.

Spread

Again according to the Wsahington Post, by the next morning there were over 90,000 tweets using the hashtag, most of them by Sanders supporters who had hijacked it for their own use. Some tweets, like that by scott_brawley, which stated "What able and professional woman hasn't had a mediocre old white dude with fewer credentials question her abilities? #HillarySoQualified" and received 178 retweets and 258 likes. But many others, including many that were more popular, criticized the candidate. According to Trendinalia, the #HillarySoQualified hashtag was the 10th top trending hashtag worldwide on April 7th, and it was covered by many national news outlets, including the Huffington Post, MSNBC, and Politico.