Hillary Clinton has a response to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s claim that she is pandering to female voters.

“Now the other day, Mr. Trump accused me of playing the ‘woman card,'” Clinton said during her primary night rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday. “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 made the accusation in an interview with Fox News over the weekend.

“The only thing she’s got is the woman card,” Trump said. “I’d love to see a woman president, but she’s the wrong person. She’s a disaster.”

At an MSNBC town hall on Monday, Clinton pledged that if she’s elected president, at least half of her Cabinet will be women.

“Well, I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America,” the former secretary of state said. “And 50 percent of America is women, right?”

And last week, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said that the Democratic frontrunner’s shortlist of potential running mates will include women, quickly leading to speculation that Clinton will consider Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a popular progressive, for an all-female ticket.

“We’ll start with a broad list and then begin to narrow it,” Podesta told the Boston Globe. “But there is no question that there will be women on that list.”

Trump speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie looks on during a primary night event in New York City on Tuesday. (Photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters)



During a press conference following Trump’s five-state sweep Tuesday night, he brought up the “woman card” again.

“Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote,” he said. “The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card. And the beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.”

Mary Pat Christie, the wife of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, appeared to throw some shade at Trump as she stood behind him on stage.









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On the second point, though, he’s right. According to an average of recent polls conducted by the Intercept, Clinton has a net favorable/unfavorable rating of minus 4.6 percent among women. But Trump’s average net favorability among women is minus 32.8 percent — likely a historic low for any major presidential candidate.

And an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted last month found that in a hypothetical general matchup against Clinton, the brash billionaire would lose the women’s vote by 21 points.

For Trump, the “beautiful thing” about Clinton’s “woman card” may prove to be ugly in November.

