This group of women — and they are overwhelmingly women, Allen said — have been following Clinton since she became first lady in the early ’90s, seeing elements of her life in their own. They’re mostly middle-aged or older. Many were the first women in their cohort to go to college, or get graduate degrees, or work outside the home while raising families, he said. After watching the sexist tactics deployed against Clinton in 2008, and again in 2016, he said, they feel like “they’ve been through a lot of wars with her.”