Women are rallying behind a new title given to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the final presidential debate Wednesday night.
The third debate started as a calm, policy-focused face-off, but turned into a deeply personal confrontation as Donald Trump audibly called Clinton a “nasty woman,” while the Democrat panned him as “unfit” to be commander in chief.
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Clinton supporters quickly took the title to heart.
“Strong women are nasty women,” one tweet reads.
“Taking my daughters to vote with me so I can raise some nasty women,” reads another.
The hashtag #NastyWomenVote was trending on Twitter.
Shirts with the phrase are cropping up for sale (in both male and female sizes.)
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The website NastyWomenGetS–tDone.com now redirects to Clinton’s campaign website. (It’s not clear if the website existed before Wednesday.)
It’s not the first time an opponent’s comments have become a rallying call: Last month, Clinton called the Republican nominee’s fanbase a “basket of deplorables,” which some Trump supporters claimed as their own.
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“To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it,” she said.
WATCH: Clinton labels half of Trump supporters as ‘deplorables’
*with a file from the Associated Press
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