Hillary Clinton raked in $2.4 million over the course of three days from selling “Women’s Cards,” the Clinton campaign said Monday. The haul is nearly a tenth of her fundraising total for April.
The cards, available for a self-selected denomination, came with such perks as “lower wages!,” “more expensive health care!,” and “limited access to your own reproductive rights!” Forty percent of those who bought the hot pink passes were new donors.
The Clinton campaign launched the cards in response to Donald Trump’s assertion Tuesday that people only vote for Clinton because she is a woman.
“I think the only card she has is the woman’s card … Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote,” Trump said in New York. “The beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.”
Clinton told Trump off in a victory speech that night in Philadelphia.
“If fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the ‘woman card,’ then deal me in,” Clinton said, using a line from her stump speech.
Later that week, Clinton assured CNN that she had experience “dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation,” a comment that drew anger from Native American groups.
Trump also responded to the remark Monday, telling CNN that “Indians have gone wild” because of it.
Clinton has not been shy about levying gender-related attacks against her opponents. In October, she implied that Bernie Sanders was a sexist for saying that she was “shouting” about gun control during the first Democratic debate.
“I’m not shouting. It’s just that when women talk, some people think we’re shouting,” Clinton said in response.
