Hillary Clinton may have attended Donald Trump’s wedding, but she’s no fan of his recent attacks on Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
“I thought what he said was offensive. And I certainly think that it deserves the kind of reaction that it’s getting from so many others,” Clinton said Monday while touting her college affordability plan in New Hampshire.
Trump has been facing criticism even from members of the most conservative wings of the Republican Party for suggesting that Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever.” (Trump later backtracked that he was referring to Kelly’s nose.)
The backlash hasn’t seemed to hurt Trump much at the polls, with a survey released Monday finding he was still leading the GOP 2016 pack in Iowa.
In her remarks Monday, Clinton however pivoted to the stances taken by other 2016 Republicans during Thursday’s debate. Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed opposition to exemptions in abortion bans for mothers whose lives are in jeopardy or for victims of rape or incest.
“What a lot of the men on that stage and that debate said was offensive,” Clinton said Monday. “The Republicans are putting forth some very radical and offensive positions when it comes to women’s lives, women’s reproductive health, women’s employment.”
Yup. 100% right, and politically crucial: keep them all linked, because they are.
All Trump is doing is stating – openly and crassly – the real and ugly reasons for positions that have become mainstream in today’s GOP… the reasons they try to keep under wraps, hidden behind euphemisms and code-words.
If they all take the same positions – and they do, apart from tone – Trump exposes them all.
I’ve been saying for weeks that the only difference between Trump and Ted Cruz is that Trump speaks louder and gets more media attention. There are a good number of others in the crowd who are also comparably offensive - Huckabee, Santorum, and Carson, for example. And Scott Walker is IMO the most dangerous person in American politics today - to the right of Attila the Hun, and with massive big-dollar support, he’s owned by the Koch brothers and their odious compatriots.
It seems that Trump is doing Republicans a favor by keeping media focus off the crazy ideas of most of their candidates. If he drops out without starting a 3rd party campaign, he’ll probably end up as a net positive for whoever eventually wins the nomination. Republicans have been pretty good at weeding out the wackiest candidates in the primaries, but this time, I’m not sure who can be left other than incompetent Jeb and dangerous Walker. As far as I’m concerned, the more Trump, Cruz et al harm the Republican brand, the better for the country.
When Trump finally does take his rightful place in history (also ran), all his mouth-breathing supporters are just going to fall inline with whomever the Republicans nominate.
This is true and I would rather vote for Sanders than her so I am not one of her real supporters.She spoke the exact truth.Good for her.
All US Women should take a pledge to never date a GOP person.Cut them all off .
I love it when she hits 'em hard … I really do!