Presidency proves a glass ceiling too high for Hillary Clinton

Since the public consciousness became aware of Hillary Clinton, she has never hidden her ambitions. Despite a wealth of political experience, she has always divided and polarised opinion, writes Will Dunham

HILLARY Clinton came closer than any other woman to winning the White House but fell short for a second time, a bitter disappointment for a pioneering but polarising American political figure.

Seeking to win election to the office her husband Bill Clinton held from 1993 to 2001, Clinton, 69, lost her battle for the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama in 2008 and lost on Tuesday to Republican Donald Trump, 70.