Trump on Clinton: “Only card she has is the woman’s card”
Tuesday was big night for presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
It was a clean sweep for Trump who won the republican primaries for five states, while Clinton can add four more states to her win column; however, it was how Trump went after Clinton that now has people talking.
The democratic presidential candidate was slammed by republican candidate Donald Trump during his victory speech on Tuesday night.
“Well, I think the only card she has is the woman’s card,” He told the crowd. “She’s got nothing else going. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man I don’t think she’d get 5% of the vote.”
A number of local residents 47ABC spoke to say, they don’t buy Trump’s claims.
“I think that she’s winning, because people believe what she says,” Explains Salisbury resident Martine Murat. “I don’t think it’s because she’s a woman.”
Meanwhile Berlin resident Kathy Wig tells 47ABC “I thought it was totally inappropriate.”
What Wig says is inappropriate, Michael O’Loughlin is calling unsurprising.
O’Loughlin is a professor of political science at Salisbury University and says character assassination has been Trump’s primary mode of “campaign attack”.
He says this tactic coupled with placing blame on established politicians has fueled the presumptive GOP front-runner’s momentum.
“He seems to be the personality type that enjoys doing that and believes that has gotten him this far,” Explains O’Loughlin. “If he does indeed become the republican nominee, there’s little question that he will continue that assault in the fall.”
In response to Trump’s comments, Clinton says she’s ready to fight.
“Well, if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman’s card, then deal me in,” She told a crowd Tuesday night.
CNN reports in a hypothetical match-up of Trump versus Clinton conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, Trump would lose the women’s vote by 21 points.
Another poll conducted in March found that 73 percent of female voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That’s up from 59-percent in late February.
