Story highlights On Thursday Hillary Clinton compared some Republican presidential candidates to terrorists for their views on women

By Friday, at least four 2016 GOP hopefuls had sharply criticized Clinton for her remarks

Cleveland (CNN) Republican presidential candidates are striking back Friday after Hillary Clinton compared some of them who hold conservative views on abortion and women's reproductive rights to "terrorist groups."

During a riff Thursday where Clinton name checked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Clinton said Republicans are "dead wrong for 21st century America."

"Now, extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world, but it's a little hard to take from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States," Clinton said at a speech in Cleveland. "Yet they espouse out of date, out of touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st century America. We are going forward, we are not going back."

Republican front-runner Donald Trump, no stranger to blunt remarks, disparaged Clinton's comment Friday morning.

"Her last statement on terrorists was a disgusting statement, by the way," Trump told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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