Story highlights "The way she talks about, 'I can handle men, you know, who get off the reservation,' I think it's a very demeaning statement," Trump said

(CNN) Donald Trump knocked Hillary Clinton's use of the phrase "off the reservation" Monday, saying that Native Americans found it offensive, and sought to rebut her claim that she's got a good track record handling unruly men.

He also claimed he would be a better candidate for women voters than Clinton, and is the most qualified candidate running for the White House.

"The way she talks about, 'I can handle men, you know, who get off the reservation,' I think it's a very demeaning statement," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "Now I won't even bring up the fact that the Indians have gone wild on that statement. You know that, OK. The Indians have said that that statement is a disastrous statement, and they want a retraction. I'm not going to get into that."

Clinton had told CNN's Jake Tapper last week: "I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak."

Hours later, the Clinton campaign's political director Amanda Renteria walked back Clinton's use of "reservation," a term she said had "some very offensive roots" to Native Americans.

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