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Donald Trump, you never see him around strong intelligent women, ever. It’s just that simple. They are intimidating to him.”
Thursday, on the ABC News show The View, billionaire Harris supporter Mark Cuban, told the hosts
I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it, whether the women like it or not.' I’m going to protect them,
Trump said during his rally Wednesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin
His latest comment is just the most recent in a series of examples that we have seen from him in his words and deeds about how he devalues the ability of women to have the choice and the freedom to make decisions about their own body,
Harris told NBC News in an exclusive interview
You think it’s a great idea to allow abortion up to the point of birth for any reason. How sick is that."
Virginia House of Delegates member Nick Freitas, a Republican, also blasted Harris, posting
Kamala euphemistically describes the act of dismembering and killing a full-term, unborn baby as 'what you do with your body.'"
Mike Lee, R-Utah, responded to Harris, writingI support Roe v. Wade being put back into law by Congress, and to restore the fundamental right of women to make decisions about their own body,
Harris repliedLIKE RONALD REAGAN BEFORE ME, I FULLY SUPPORT THE THREE EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER,
he declared on social mediaThe fact that we can’t all agree on this basic point is deeply disturbing,
he continuedI'm gonna protect them from migrants coming in. I'm gonna protect them from foreign countries that wanna… hit us with missiles…"
While the clip Harris shared ended there, during the actual speech Trump went on to sayTo be clear, most of us can and do agree on this – overwhelmingly, ... But Kamala doesn’t."
he added, claimingLet's put back in place Roe v. Wade,
Harris saidKamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls. Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office,
Trump said
When you think about that level of instability, the level of erratic decision-making, the misogyny, that's not someone that you can entrust with the power of the Oval Office,
Cheney said
It's very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies,
Harris told reporters in Wisconsin, where she is campaigningI think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,
Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the western swing states of Arizona and Nevada
This is just the latest on a long series of reveals by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency,
she saidI am your protector. I want to be your protector. As president, I have to be your protector. I hope you don’t make too much of it. I hope the fake news doesn’t go, ‘Oh, he wants to be their protector.’ Well, I am. As president, I have to be your protector.”
Trump began talking about himself as a “protector of women” at a rally in September, when he saidHarris may be the first woman Vice President but she has implemented dangerously liberal policies that have left women worse off financially and far less safe than we were four years ago under President Trump.”
The Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt respondedThey said, ‘Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you to say.’ I pay these guys a lot of money; can you believe it?”
Trump saidI'm gonna defend and I'm gonna protect women—I'm not gonna let people go up to the suburbs or go into places where they live, whether it's suburbs or cities or farms. We're gonna protect our women. At the border, we're gonna protect our women. And also, we're gonna protect our men and our children. We're gonna protect everybody."
Later on in his speech, he added