“What Donald Trump asserted about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, yet what the rest of the Republicans are saying about all women is moreover outrageous”, Clinton stated.
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Kelly was not mentioned in Fox’s Tuesday Trump interview. “It’s typically something we don’t see of presidential candidates”, says American University professor Jennifer Lawless, who is also the director of the university’s Women & Politics Institute.
And Trump’s comment that he forced the former New York senator to attend his wedding by donating to her senate campaign? “It is just delivered in a different package”, she said.
But, she said, she worries for women “who may not have the opportunity to defend themselves, who may lose the right to exercise a personal choice if certain of the Republicans were to be successful – I don’t want that forgotten”.
Over the weekend, controversy once again erupted around Trump’s campaign, when the billionaire real estate mogul criticized Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly for the questions she posed to him at last week’s debate.
Trump is now in first place in New Hampshire among likely Republican voters, receiving 18% support, according to a post-debate survey by Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald.
What do you think about Donald Trump targeting Carly Fiorina? “I think that’s something that people should take into account in their decision-making process”.
“We have to build a wall”, he said, prompting an interruption with a standing ovation that briefly shut down Mr. Trump with chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”. The 47% to Romney that probably cost him the election.
Trump has faced a firestorm of criticism for his remarks, and for doubling down by refusing to apologize to Kelly, saying: “I couldn’t care less about her”. Trump is “totally against the abortion aspect” of Planned Parenthood, but doesn’t support defunding the women’s health organization, he said. He said the Democrats are better at running the economy than the Republicans.
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Trump is using a “no holds barred” approach in his speeches and taking advantage of the country’s exhausted state with political correctness.
