Hillary Clinton has a friend in Carole King.
The legendary singer-songwriter says the difference between when she broke down barriers in the ’60s and what Clinton did Tuesday is simple: nobody was heckling the artist.
King told CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday that she “never knew there were barriers to break” as a young songwriter, because she wasn’t being fought in the same way others are fighting Clinton.
However, Clinton’s fight to the top, King said, “would be like me performing ‘You’ve Got a Friend,’ … and people screaming at me while I’m doing it, ‘You suck!’ “
The songstress has known Hillary Clinton since she met the Clintons at a friend’s house in 1992, she said, and described the former secretary of state as “warm” and “smart.”
Asked what she wish the rest of the world could see about Clinton, King said few people see Clinton’s tenaciousness in helping others.
“What they don’t see is how she puts one foot in front of the other and keeps going to achieve what she’s trying to achieve,” King said. “Not for herself, but for the people she’s trying to achieve it for.”
King praised Clinton for making history this week and was proud she was the one to break through.
“It is remarkable, it is wonderful, it was destined to happen, but ‘when’ was the question. I’m so glad that it did happen,” she told Bash. “She is absolutely the perfect person to break that barrier. She’s earned it.”