Hillary calls Trump’s remarks ‘degrading’ to women

In a familiar pattern for Trump, he responded to fire – this time over a vulgarity he used in describing Clinton’s 2008 primary loss – with fire.

A look at the national polls paints Clinton as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, but she may very well hit a hiccup in New Hampshire this go-around. “It’s disgusting. I don’t want to talk about it”, he said. “His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying has become his campaign”. “I know where she went and it’s disgusting”, The Donald said afterward.

Still, vulgar remarks by Donald Trump after Saturday’s Democratic debate were enough to take Sanders off message on Wednesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as the Vermont senator displayed an unusual flash of wit.

Mrs Clinton’s campaign communications director tweeted: “We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should”. They both beat her by 12 points among independent voters, although she is even with Trump among that group. She barely edges out Republican Donald Trump – 49 percent picked Clinton and 47 percent picked the businessman, within the poll’s margin of error.

There was no evidence to back the claim, and Trump quickly called Clinton a liar and demanded an apology.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday found that Mr Trump would lose to Ms Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head contest if the presidential election were held today.

And while Mr Trump continues to lead the Republican race, more than half of all voters polled would be “embarrassed” to have him as president and as many as 28 per cent of Republicans declare they could not support him.

In what appeared to be a more direct reference to Trump – though still without mentioning him by name – Clinton also said: “We shouldn’t let anybody bully his way into the presidency because that is not who we are as Americans”.

He further tore into Clinton’s comment about his campaign’s “tone”.

Despite those gaps, Democratic men are actually more likely than Democratic women to say the party has a better chance to win in 2016 with Clinton than without her (64% of men say the best chance is with Clinton, 55% of women say the same).

The Journal cited experts who study terrorism as saying the evidence is thin that Trump, who urged a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and mosque surveillance after the Paris and California attacks, has been a specific focus in terrorism recruitment and propaganda to date. “It’s not a sign of strength to insult people with profanity”, Bush told reporters after speaking to voters at a community college in New Hampshire’s north country. “It turns people off. For crying out loud, we’re two days before Christmas”.