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Margaret Carlson: Count the number of women running for president, and get used to it

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., whomped President Donald Trump and then ungraciously rubbed it in. At the State of the Union - which she had forced the president to reschedule - she leaned over and clapped in his face.

Women running for president, take note. No one is asking whether the speaker is likable. They don't do that when you win. And now that there are five of you, enough to field a basketball team, you shouldn't give it another thought. Lose the happy face unless you feel like it, raise your voice, argue a point, get called for charging the basket and, yes, persist.