Trump: Clinton isn’t ahead ‘because she's terrible’

Donald Trump has an answer for Hillary Clinton, who on Wednesday questioned why she’s not 50 points ahead of the Republican presidential nominee: Because you’re terrible.

In a video address to a Las Vegas conference of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, Clinton highlighted her pro-union stances.


“Having said all this, ‘Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?’ you might ask?” she said. “Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer. I need your help to get Donald Trump’s record out to everybody. Nobody should be fooled.”

Indeed, polls have shown a tightening race between the candidates nationally and in battleground states. Asked about the former secretary of state’s question Thursday morning during a phone interview with “Fox and Friends,” Trump wasted little time answering.

“Because she’s terrible,” he said bluntly. “I mean, she’s had a terrible record. Everything she touches is bad. You look at what’s going on with Libya and you look at the surge and you look at all of her decisions and you look at the Iran deal, which is one of the dumbest deals I’ve ever seen, which she started, and she totally backs, by the way, I mean, in its completed form, she totally backs. You look at everything she touched, I mean, it’s just a mess. And she’s spending a lot of money and so far it’s not had much of an impact because I guess I’m winning in most of these states and we’ll see what happens in the end, but she is [terrible].”