A new war over the ‘woman card’

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Tuesday declared their own war over women.
The Democratic and Republican presidential front-runners signaled a heated general election clash over gender after they both swept much closer to closing out their nominations.

Clinton relished a chance to lay into Trump in her victory speech in Philadelphia after winning four out of the five Northeastern primary contests.

“The other day, Mr. Trump accused me, of playing the, quote, ‘woman card,’ ” Clinton said. “Well, if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in.”

Trump brought up the “women’s card” again in his own victory speech Tuesday after his five-for-five showing in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

“I think the only card she has is the women’s card,” Trump said a short while later in New York. “She has got nothing else going. Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she would get 5% of the vote. And the beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.”
Trump continued the attack Wednesday on CNN.

“She is a woman,” he told Chris Cuomo on “New Day.” “She is playing the woman card left and right. She didn’t play it last time with Obama. But she’s playing it much harder this time and she will be called on it,” he said. “If she were a man and she was the way she is, she would get virtually no votes.”He went on: “Hillary has a lot of flaws. She’s got a lot of problems. A lot of women, as you know, don’t like Hillary, despite the card.”
But exit polls don’t bear that out. Clinton did well among women in Tuesday’s primary states, according to exit polls of Democratic primary voters.

He went on: “Hillary has a lot of flaws. She’s got a lot of problems. A lot of women, as you know, don’t like Hillary, despite the card.”
But exit polls don’t bear that out. Clinton did well among women in Tuesday’s primary states, according to exit polls of Democratic primary voters.

Trump also captured the majority of women Republican primary voters in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, though by slightly smaller margins.

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