Ivanka Trump dings Clinton on child care policies

To hear Ivanka Trump tell it Wednesday, Hillary Clinton has had decades of opportunity to enact child care policies similar to the ones proposed by her father.

Sitting down on ABC's "Good Morning America," the Trump Organization executive and elder daughter of the Republican nominee responded to criticism from the Clinton campaign that the proposal did not go far enough. For example, the plan includes maternity leave but omitted paternity leave.


"Well, I think we took a giant leap forward with the plan and, you know, respectfully, Hillary Clinton has been around for decades and there's no policy benefiting either mothers or fathers in terms of paid leave," Ivanka Trump said. "So I think the fact that we are advocating for this and advocating for it so strongly and taking leadership on this is testament in itself to our thoughts on this subject, but certainly she had opportunity to have a concept like that."

Reminded that Clinton's website shows a guarantee of up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to care for a new child or seriously ill family member, Trump suggested that Clinton has missed her chance.

"We have not been in public office for the last several decades and she has," she said. "So she could have instituted some of those policies in that role and has not done so."

