It didn’t take long for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to jump back into attack mode the day after the second presidential debate.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Detroit, Michigan, Clinton said Trump “doubled down on his excuse” Sunday for a 2005 tape showing him speaking about women in predatory terms.
At the debate, Trump described the recording as “locker room talk.”
“That is just a really weak excuse for behaving badly and mistreating people,” Clinton said.
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The Democratic presidential candidate said Trump spent his time attacking “when he should have been apologizing.” She urged voters to back her candidacy to show that “we are not who he is.”
Clinton also weighed in on the war of words between billionaires Warren Buffett and Donald Trump.
Hours after Buffett issued a statement rejecting Trump’s assertion that they both use the same tax avoidance strategies, Clinton worked Buffett’s denial into her campaign speech.
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Clinton paraphrased Buffett’s statement point by point, noting he said he’s paid federal income tax since he was 13-years-old and would be happy to release his tax returns, unlike Trump.
She said her Republican opponent messed with the wrong billionaire: If you’re going to call out Buffett, you better be ready to be dealt some “good, ol’ fashioned, honest facts.”
At his own rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump said that he “had a lot of fun” in the second presidential debate and said that Hillary Clinton’s performance in their showdown was “highly overrated.”
The Republican nominee claimed that Clinton had “no defence” for his attacks and that “all she could do is lie.”
Trump’s appearance at the rally was his first since the leak of the 2005 video that captured him describing women with vulgar terms and appearing to condone sexual assault.
He tried to turn the criticism he’s received for the vulgar remarks into an attack on how former President Bill Clinton has treated women.
Trump said Clinton was “the worst abuser of women” to ever sit in the Oval Office. He claimed the media “condemned my words” but ignored what Clinton did.
He said the “last 72 hours has framed what this election is all about.”
Trump said that it’s about the “American people fighting back against corrupt politicians who don’t care about anything except for staying in power.”
At the rally in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, Trump pledged to improve the nation’s trade deals and crack down on illegal immigration.
Trump said that he wasn’t proud of everything he’s done in his life but is proud of treating “the blue collar workers that make this country run with tremendous respect.”
The Republican nominee vowed to enact a hard line immigration policy and positioned himself as a champion of the working class.
Trump has made Pennsylvania a lynchpin in his electoral strategy but has consistently been trailing in the polls.
The debate Sunday was vicious, with both candidates on the attack. Trump called Clinton “the devil” to her face and suggested that, if he wins in November, he would move to imprison her for her email scandal.
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