Hillary Clinton attacked Donald Trump for his insults towards women on Thursday and pledged to defend women from those attacks, including Fox News host Megyn Kelly and former Republican candidate Carly Fiorina.
“The whole idea of ‘playing the woman card,’ which he charged I was doing, and by extension other women were doing, has just lit a fire under so many women across the country. And I think it’s because they see his attacks on me, or Megyn Kelly or Carly Fiorina or whoever else he’s attacking at the moment as really a much broader attack on them,” Clinton said during an editorial board interview with the Los Angeles Times published Thursday.
“I think we are going to be pushing back and drawing the contrast whenever he does that,” Clinton said. “Because it’s just absolutely beyond the pale. He’s not going to get away with it, at least going forward.”
After Trump said that the only thing Clinton had going for her was the “woman card,” the former secretary of state’s campaign began sending “woman cards” to donors in order to make fun of Trump. The GOP nominee has extremely high unfavorable ratings among women voters, and going into the November election Clinton is working to bring as many moderate and independent female voters to her campaign as possible.
Clinton also spoke of her experiences growing up “as a woman coming of age in our country after World War II” and the limitations faced by women in that era. Despite the tremendous strides women have taken in the past 60 years the likely Democratic nominee reiterated, “there’s sill work to be done.”
