Trump drew scorn from Clinton’s fans and other critics when he said Clinton was playing the woman card and questioned whether she’d get the level of support she has if she were a man.
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The distant third place candidate said, “What I’m really fundamentally interested in is making sure that Hillary Clinton is not president”.
The bottom line on Clinton is that she’s spent her life championing women and their issues.
Pelosi, who as House Speaker in 2007 became the most powerful female elected official in USA history, has not endorsed a candidate in this year’s Democratic primary.
Clinton jumped on the “woman card” bandwagon right away – pushing back in her own speech that night. She then says that her being a woman makes her an outsider and would be “quite a change” from President Obama.
“She added, “@HillaryClinton meant no disrespect to Native Americans.
“There are certain strategies Clinton and Trump may try in the coming months, but Trump especially has a lot of ground to make up”, she added. “She wants this election to be about lifting people up, not tearing them down”.
“If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote”, he said.
“On the other hand, if Trump continues to campaign as he has in the primaries, he risks losing broad sections of the electorate such as women and minorities”.
“The primary thing that she has going is that she’s a woman, and she is playing that card like I have never seen anybody play it before”, Trump said Thursday on NBC’s Today show. Women’s groups have pounced, accusing the thrice-married billionaire businessman of compulsive misogyny.
Though Clinton wouldn’t respond directly to Trump’s attacks on her, personally, she did go after him on a number of fronts.
Trump’s messages about women represent a tangle of views, said Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at the City University of NY.
“I consider myself as someone who’s on the path, and obviously I’m very far ahead in both the popular vote and the delegate count, so I think the path leads to the nomination”, Clinton said.
Pelosi also praised Sen.
There’s the Trump who has no qualms about advancing women within his business enterprises, the Trump who disparages women just because “I can say whatever comes to mind”, and the retrograde Trump who never outgrew an adolescent fixation with desirable and handsome women, Renshon said.
The Democratic presidential candidate used Snapchat’s new “face swap” feature to superimpose the images of prominent past Republican presidents on Trump’s visage to lampoon the billionaire real estate mogul’s claims that he would begin acting “presidential”. But Pelosi on Friday declined to join that chorus, saying the timetable is personal for each candidate. “They have their own call to service, their own objective”.
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The Democratic presidential front-runner did not elaborate which men she was referring to.
