This time a week ago, current GOP front-runner Donald Trump seemed unbeatable. Yet no matter how fellow Republicans tried to slow his momentum or derail his efforts to reach the delegates needed for a first ballot victory at the GOP convention in July, nothing seemed to work.
Oh what a difference a week makes!
It began with the arrest of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandoski, who was charged with battery for assaulting a female reporter earlier this month. And then last night as part of an MSNBC town hall meeting, Trump said “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions in America.
Within minutes of Trump’s comments, former Secretary of State and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton took to social media and eviscerated Trump:
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse. Horrific and telling. -H https://t.co/Qi8TutsOw9
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
We can’t let someone with this much contempt for women’s rights anywhere near the White House.https://t.co/OjU9gRwsxo
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
Once Trump began to see the fallout from his comments, he started walking back what he’d said on MSNBC, but Clinton only hit him harder:
Maya Angelou said: "When people show you who they are, believe them." Trump can try to walk back his words, but we heard him loud and clear.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
Even by his impossibly low standards, @realDonaldTrump's suggestion that women be punished for seeking abortion is abhorrent.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
Remember: If you make abortion a crime, you make women who seek abortions criminals. You put one in three women at risk.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
And then Clinton did a perfect pivot and said what we all know: The entire GOP agrees with Trump, but they don’t want to say so and risk losing millions of votes:
The fact is, Trump isn't that different from every other Republican candidate who would also outlaw abortion.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
The fact is, Trump isn't that different from every other Republican candidate who would also outlaw abortion.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
Every woman—regardless of income or zip code—deserves access to health care. If you don't get that, you have no business being president.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
But stopping Trump requires us all to do something in November:
At this point, Donald Trump has insulted the vast majority of Americans. The good news is, there's something we can all do about it: Vote.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2016
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