Donald Trump is “always projecting” issues with his own campaign and personality onto to his Democratic opponent, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
“When he knows that he has exposure in terms of women, he projects onto Bill Clinton. When he says [Hillary Clinton] is engaged in an international conspiracy, whatever he’s describing it as, his own people describe his advisers admitting to having backchannel conversations with the Russians,” the Democratic congresswoman told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Pelosi continued, “When he knows his temperament is not going over very well, he says, ‘I have the temperament for the job.’ When he knows that his stamina, is lagging, he says, ‘I have the stamina for the job.'”
“So I think that every time [Trump] says something, you have to look to his vulnerability on those scores,” she advised.
Pelosi, who told House Democrats on a conference call last week that they would regain control of the lower chamber if the election were held today, also told Tapper that such a victory will largely be determined by “what Hillary Clinton’s margin is” on Nov. 8.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, also defended Clinton as she’s under fire for saying in a speech revealed by WikiLeaks’ hack of an aide’s emails that environmentalists should “get a life” rather than saying the United States should no longer use fossil fuels.
“If the election were today, we’d have a good chance to do so,” she said, later adding that the House “is definitely within reach.”
