Clinton Trump war of words gets hotter

In an interview with The Des Moines Register late Tuesday, Clinton said of Trump, “It’s not the first time he’s demonstrated a penchant for sexism”. “So nothing really surprises me anymore”. Overall, 46% of voters say the Republicans have a better chance to win in 2016 with Trump as the party’s nominee, while 50% say the GOP has a better chance with someone else at the top of the ticket. And his bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

Clinton, answering a question about bullying at an event in Iowa, did not name Trump but said she was used to people saying “terrible things” about her. She barely edges out Republican Donald Trump – 49 percent picked Clinton and 47 percent picked the businessman, within the poll’s margin of error. “Again, I’m not sure anybody’s surprised that he keeps pushing the envelope”, she added.

Although much of the debate over guns on the Democratic side has centered on Sanders’ more gun-friendly views after representing a state where many own guns, among registered Democrats who say they or someone in their household owns a gun, Clinton is more widely trusted to handle gun policy: 58% favor her take on the issue vs. 28% who prefer Sanders. I don’t know that he has any boundaries at all.

“Be careful Hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card”, Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday. Trump’s campaign responded this week by insisting that as president, he wouldn’t kill journalists: “I hate some of these people, but I’d never kill them, “he said”.

Mrs. Clinton has been stepping up her attacks on Donald Trump as she approaches a general election in which she appears to be confident she will be the party’s standard-bearer.

“You know, I was there at the debate we had on Saturday night”.

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”. If Trump ever tried to make these statements about women in a presidential debate with Clinton standing across the stage, she would administer some serious schooling that he would remember for the rest of his life. “When I said Hillary got “schlonged” that meant beaten badly”, he tweeted on Tuesday night.

Donald Trump cited a National Public Radio (NPR) report in Y 2011 that used the term “Schlonged” to describe Walter Mondale’s defeat in the Y 1984 presidential campaign.