House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday denounced Donald Trump after he said Hillary Clinton is playing the “women’s card” to become president.
“I don’t know what card he’s playing,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said when asked about Trump’s accusations. “What, the joker’s card? That doesn’t even count in a deck of cards.”
Pelosi, who served as House speaker from 2007 until 2011, said playing up gender “is not a winning message,” for a female candidate and said in her climb up the leadership post in the House of Representatives that eventually lead to the speaker’s chair, she never tried to use it as leverage.
Nor should Clinton, she said.
“It would be a wonderful, glorious thing to have a woman president of the United States, but that is not the credential to be elected or to have the confidence of the American people,” Pelosi said. “The credential is your leadership, your judgment, your vision, your strategic thinking, your connection to the American people.”
Clinton, Pelosi said, “is playing the experience card.”
Pelosi has not endorsed either Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the nomination.
She praised Sanders for increasing the enthusiasm and participation among young voters and did not endorse calls that he withdraw from the race now that it has become nearly impossible for him to secure enough delegates to beat Clinton.
“The election has to play itself out,” Pelosi said.
Clinton has embraced Trump’s gender attack and is even using his remarks to raise money for her campaign. The organization is offering donors their own “Official Hillary for America Woman Card”
