Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Hillary Clinton’s allies have launched what promises to be a sustained, full-frontal assault targeting Trump for his decades-long history of making brash, often degrading remarks about women.
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Priorities USA, the Super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton, has unveiled a pair of blistering attack ads highlighting some of Trump most outlandish comments. The aim is clearly to solidify the already substantial opposition to Trump among women voters.
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One of the ads is strikingly similar to a spot released by the anti-Trump Republican group Our Principles PAC in March. It failed, obviously, to put a significant dent in Trump’s support among Republican primary voters, but the general election, where women typically make up a majority of the electorate, is a whole new ballgame.
Trump took to Twitter early Tuesday morning to express his displeasure with the ads in one of his signature tweet rants. He took particular issues with the fact that one his quotes that appears in the ad — “You can tell them to go f–k themselves” — was not actually in reference to women, but rather was aimed at China in the context of one of his diatribes about unfair trade.
Trump has had a rough couple of weeks on this front. The New York Times published a scathing piece on Trump’s problematic relationship with women over the years based on dozens of interviews. He’s been tied to Clinton crony and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and was exposed as having masqueraded as his own publicist in order to brag about his sexual exploits in the press.
Hillary’s campaign and its various affiliates will have no shortage of material with which to attack Trump in a general election, and not just on women’s issues. The campaign’s first web ad was a devastating critique of Trump using the past statements of Republican politicians.
They’re just getting warmed up.
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