Arizona Sen. John McCain said Monday that Hillary Clinton’s support with women is likely suffering because of her husband’s past sex scandals.
While discussing the Democratic presidential contest on Fox News, the former Republican nominee said former president Bill Clinton’s history is resurfacing in the mind’s of voters, even as he has accused Hillary’s political opponents of being “sexist.”
“I believe that there is sort of a different take today among [women] about what happened with Bill Clinton,” McCain said. “I think women that I talk to today feel that those kinds of things cannot be glossed over by saying it’s a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.'”
A “vast right-wing conspiracy” is how Hillary Clinton attempted to discredit the story and their critics in the late 1990s.
Bill Clinton raised the gender issue just this weekend while campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire. He said Sunday that liberal journalist Joan Walsh “and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary, to explain why they supported her, have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often, not to mention sexist, to repeat.”
Sanders was asked Sunday on CNN about the supposedly sexist things some of his supporters have said on online forums and social media.
“Look, anybody who is supporting me and is doing sexist things is, we don’t want them,” he said. “I don’t want them. That’s not what this campaign is about.”
