Former President Clinton said in an interview aired Sunday that he believes the US will “soon” have a female-led executive branch.

“I still think we’ll have a woman president soon,” Clinton said in an interview with Tracy Smith on CBS News Sunday Morning.

Vice President Harris, who recently lost her bid for the White House to President-elect Trump, would have been the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to secure the presidency had she won. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would also have been the first woman to hold the presidency if she had won in 2016.

Both Hillary Clinton and Harris faced Trump in their respective races. However, he defeated them both.

The former president said in his interview with Tracy Smith that he believes “it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win the presidency” and said the country has “moved to the right.”

“I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she would have walked in like Obama,” Clinton said in the interview.

Clinton campaigned for Harris during the last election cycle but was criticized for comments he made at a Harris event in late October in which he defended Israel’s killing of civilians and said Hamas had used them as human shields.

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