WASHINGTON: With a well-chronicled file of denigrating ladies, former US President Donald Trump has once more stepped right into a gender minefield saying world leaders would deal with his rival Kamala Harris as “playtoy” and would “stroll throughout her” if she turned President.
“I believe they will have a look at her. I believe they will stroll throughout. She’ll be really easy for them.She’ll be like a playtoy. They’re going to have a look at her and so they’ll say, we will not imagine we bought so fortunate,” Trump stated in an interview on Fox Information, with out providing the explanation why it might be so.
As an alternative he stated, “And I do not wish to say as to why, however lots of people perceive it,” whereas particularly invoking a state of affairs of her assembly China’s President Xi. “How do you assume they will look? President Xi of China standing collectively together with her, representing. I do not need her to be my consultant. Our nation’s bought sufficient issues. They may stroll throughout her and her loopy administration,” Trump stated.
Trump aides later finessed what was extensively seen as a sexist putdown, sustaining he was not referring to her race or gender however to her being “weak, dishonest and dangerously liberal.”
“A vote for Kamala is a vote for extra crime, inflation, open borders, excessive gasoline costs, and conflict world wide, and our staff will make certain each American is aware of it,” the Trump marketing campaign stated in a press release.
The previous President has persistently attacked feminine opponents in sexist phrases going again to 2015 from the time he first ran for the White Home when he questioned Hillary Clinton’s power and stamina and referred to as her “unbalanced” and “unhinged.” Within the primaries, he mocked former Hewlett-Packard chief govt Carly Fiorina’s appears to be like, saying, “Have a look at that face! Would anybody vote for that? Are you able to think about that, the face of our subsequent president?”
Within the ongoing election cycle, Trump has referred to as Nikki Haley a “birdbrain” throughout the primaries, and now, squaring up in opposition to Kamala Harris, he has stated she is “dumb as a rock” and a “low IQ particular person.” His vice-presidential working mate JD Vance, has characterised Harris and another Democratic ladies as “childless cat women” whose lives are depressing.
Trump’s remarks got here regardless of latest polling information displaying Kamala Harris working up a powerful lead over him amongst ladies voters — 42-31 in a single survey. About 7.4 million extra ladies than males had been registered to vote in 2022 and extra ladies than males have voted in each presidential election since 1964.
In latest speeches, Trump has pushed again on the impression that he’s anti-women, praising a feminine Secret Service agent who shielded him throughout the assassination try though a few of his MAGA supporters derided her brief stature. He additionally accused Harris of supporting a “coverage of forcing each public faculty in America to let males in ladies’s and ladies’ locker rooms.”
The Harris marketing campaign, framing the competition as one between a prosecutor and a perpetrator, hit again by highlighting Trump’s remarks about “courting his personal daughter,” “bragging about strolling in on teen ladies altering in dressing rooms” and being adjudicated for rape.
The genderized conflict got here at the same time as Harris addressed a euphoric rally in Atlanta, a black-majority metropolis in Georgia, a battleground state the place city African-American voters and suburban ladies voters can overturn principally Republican white voters in remainder of the state.
An identical dynamic might be at play in cities resembling Philadelphia (Harris’ subsequent marketing campaign cease) and Detroit, the place focus of black, minority and dealing ladies votes can ship the states (Pennsylvania and Michigan) to the Democrats. Assist for Republicans in these states comes principally from the white-dominated rural areas.
Harris is predicted to decide on a working mate over the following few days with Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly topping her brief listing. Whereas Shapiro may help ship Pennsylvania, which Trump by solely 44,000 votes in 2016 and misplaced by 80,000 votes in 2020, Kelly, a white male from a border state, may assist Harris on the difficult problem of immigration.
“I believe they will have a look at her. I believe they will stroll throughout. She’ll be really easy for them.She’ll be like a playtoy. They’re going to have a look at her and so they’ll say, we will not imagine we bought so fortunate,” Trump stated in an interview on Fox Information, with out providing the explanation why it might be so.
As an alternative he stated, “And I do not wish to say as to why, however lots of people perceive it,” whereas particularly invoking a state of affairs of her assembly China’s President Xi. “How do you assume they will look? President Xi of China standing collectively together with her, representing. I do not need her to be my consultant. Our nation’s bought sufficient issues. They may stroll throughout her and her loopy administration,” Trump stated.
Trump aides later finessed what was extensively seen as a sexist putdown, sustaining he was not referring to her race or gender however to her being “weak, dishonest and dangerously liberal.”
“A vote for Kamala is a vote for extra crime, inflation, open borders, excessive gasoline costs, and conflict world wide, and our staff will make certain each American is aware of it,” the Trump marketing campaign stated in a press release.
The previous President has persistently attacked feminine opponents in sexist phrases going again to 2015 from the time he first ran for the White Home when he questioned Hillary Clinton’s power and stamina and referred to as her “unbalanced” and “unhinged.” Within the primaries, he mocked former Hewlett-Packard chief govt Carly Fiorina’s appears to be like, saying, “Have a look at that face! Would anybody vote for that? Are you able to think about that, the face of our subsequent president?”
Within the ongoing election cycle, Trump has referred to as Nikki Haley a “birdbrain” throughout the primaries, and now, squaring up in opposition to Kamala Harris, he has stated she is “dumb as a rock” and a “low IQ particular person.” His vice-presidential working mate JD Vance, has characterised Harris and another Democratic ladies as “childless cat women” whose lives are depressing.
Trump’s remarks got here regardless of latest polling information displaying Kamala Harris working up a powerful lead over him amongst ladies voters — 42-31 in a single survey. About 7.4 million extra ladies than males had been registered to vote in 2022 and extra ladies than males have voted in each presidential election since 1964.
In latest speeches, Trump has pushed again on the impression that he’s anti-women, praising a feminine Secret Service agent who shielded him throughout the assassination try though a few of his MAGA supporters derided her brief stature. He additionally accused Harris of supporting a “coverage of forcing each public faculty in America to let males in ladies’s and ladies’ locker rooms.”
The Harris marketing campaign, framing the competition as one between a prosecutor and a perpetrator, hit again by highlighting Trump’s remarks about “courting his personal daughter,” “bragging about strolling in on teen ladies altering in dressing rooms” and being adjudicated for rape.
The genderized conflict got here at the same time as Harris addressed a euphoric rally in Atlanta, a black-majority metropolis in Georgia, a battleground state the place city African-American voters and suburban ladies voters can overturn principally Republican white voters in remainder of the state.
An identical dynamic might be at play in cities resembling Philadelphia (Harris’ subsequent marketing campaign cease) and Detroit, the place focus of black, minority and dealing ladies votes can ship the states (Pennsylvania and Michigan) to the Democrats. Assist for Republicans in these states comes principally from the white-dominated rural areas.
Harris is predicted to decide on a working mate over the following few days with Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly topping her brief listing. Whereas Shapiro may help ship Pennsylvania, which Trump by solely 44,000 votes in 2016 and misplaced by 80,000 votes in 2020, Kelly, a white male from a border state, may assist Harris on the difficult problem of immigration.
