Hillary Clinton took a shot at her opponent Donald Trump’s paid maternity leave plan in a Thursday speech in Greensboro, North Carolina, getting in an apparent swipe at his daughter Ivanka Trump’s testy interview with Cosmopolitan on that subject as well.
“We don’t need a president who apparently thinks only married people deserve paid leave and only mothers ever stay home with the kids,” Clinton said in her first public appearance since taking a few days off the trail while she recovered from a bout of pneumonia.
“We don’t need someone who rushes out a half-baked plan just weeks before an election after decades of ignoring or putting down working moms,” she added.
Clinton knocked her opponent for several of his economic policies, including paid family leave, seeming to take a swipe at Ivanka Trump’s Cosmopolitan interview on the subject, which Trump abruptly ended after it got intense.
Ivanka Trump had taken heat after she was pressed in an interview with Cosmopolitan to explain why her father’s plan, which she was given credit for, did not include gay men or those who have children via surrogate. She hit back at her critics and at Cosmopolitan Thursday on Twitter:
3/3:@Cosmopolitan, your readers do & should care about issues impacting women & children. Keep the focus where it belongs—advocating change.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 15, 2016
