Warren to Trump: 'Nasty women have really had it with guys like you'

Donald Trump “aggressively disrespects” women, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday afternoon, and as such, the Massachusetts senator offered a message for the Manhattan billionaire: “I've got news for you, Donald Trump — women have had it with guys like you.”

“And nasty women have really had it with guys like you,” she said, borrowing the insult Trump hurled at Hillary Clinton at the last presidential debate. “Get this, Donald: Nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote. And on November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever.”


With Clinton and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan seated by her side, Warren delivered a blistering attack against Trump and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), whose seat Hassan is running to take. While Trump’s plans on college affordability and climate change drew Warren’s scorn, her most biting remarks focused on Trump’s long history of derogatory statements and actions toward women.

“Donald Trump disrespects, aggressively disrespects, more than half the human beings in this country. He thinks that because he has money that he can call women fat pigs and bimbos,” she said. “He thinks because he is a celebrity that he can rate women's bodies from 1 to 10. He thinks that because he has a mouth full of Tic Tacs that he can force himself on any woman within groping distance.”

Even at its peak, Ayotte’s support for Trump was lukewarm at best but the New Hampshire senator officially rescinded her support for the GOP nominee in the wake of a video from 2005 in which Trump uses vulgar language to describe how his celebrity allowed him to sexually assault women with impunity. But even Ayotte’s less-than-enthusiastic embrace of Trump gave Warren a wide enough window to attack her for backing the increasingly-unpopular Republican nominee.

“You know, for more than a year, Donald Trump has made headlines almost every day, and where has Sen. Kelly Ayotte been?” Warren asked before listing off the real estate mogul’s litany of scandals, including his disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants, his public feud with a gold star family and his praise for Vladimir Putin. Warren punctuated each of Trump’s scandals by noting that “Kelly stuck with him.”

“Trump even attacked Kelly Ayotte, and called her weak,” Warren said. “And Kelly stuck with him.”

“But now, Donald Trump's not doing so well, and Kelly is running as fast as she can away from him. I will say one thing. Donald Trump sure has made Kelly Ayotte dance. Day one she loves him. Day two, she hates him. Day three she's back with him. Boy, spins around and around,” Warren said. “But one of the things I love about the people from New Hampshire that you value guts. You make the right decision and then you stick with it. Donald Trump is right. Kelly is weak.”

Where Warren left off, Clinton picked up in her own remarks, praising Hassan’s candidacy for Senate by pointing to her successes as governor. Clinton lauded Hassan not just for New Hampshire’s economic progress but for her bipartisan track record in the state. And just as Warren had done minutes earlier, she linked Ayotte to Trump, highlighting the GOP senator’s statement at a debate earlier this month that Trump could be considered a role model. Ayotte has since said that “misspoke” when she made that statement.

Clinton also devoted time to praising Colin Van Ostern, the Democrat running to replace Hassan in New Hampshire’s governor’s mansion, talking up his efforts on clean energy and higher education. The former secretary of state’s efforts backing down-ballot Democrats have grown in recent days as her polling lead over Trump has grown.

But she quickly dove back into her own race, joking to the crowd that “I stood next to Donald Trump in three debates for four-and-a-half hours proving once again I have the stamina to be president.” She said that while she has been criticized at times for the thoroughness of her policy proposals, voters should treat them as a checklist for her potential administration. Of her laundry list of plans, Clinton said “maybe it is a bit of a women's thing, because we make lists.”

“We try to write down what we're supposed to do and then cross them off as we go through the day and the week,” she said. “And so, I want you to think about our plans as our lists. Our lists as a country.”

On her opponent, Clinton was once again critical of Trump’s refusal to pledge that he will accept the results of next month’s election. She said such rhetoric, which has come with increasing frequency from Trump’s campaign, is especially troubling to her as a former secretary of state who visited countries where political opponents were regularly jailed, exiled or killed.

Clinton contrasted Trump’s decision to question the validity of U.S. election results with a message painting her campaign as one of unity, backed by Republicans abandoning their party’s nominee and record numbers of young people registering to vote.

Trump’s tweet on Sunday that the assault on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in Iraq is “turning out to be a total disaster” also drew scorn from Clinton. She said the post was only part of a long history for Trump, who she said has been “denigrating America for decades.”

“He tweeted that the new effort underway to push the terrorists out of the key city of Mosul is already, and I quote, ‘a total disaster.’ And that our country is, quote, ‘looking so dumb.’ Imagine, imagine, this is a guy who says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. I don't think so,” she said. “He's basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started. He's proving to the world what it means to have an unqualified commander in chief. It's not only wrong, it's dangerous, and it needs to be repudiated on November 8th, here in New Hampshire and across America.”