In this photo taken Oct. 14, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a rally for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate, Secretary of State Jason Kander, in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

In this photo taken Oct. 14, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a rally for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate, Secretary of State Jason Kander, in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

Elizabeth Warren to Donald Trump: ‘Nasty women vote’

By Anne Gearan

The Washington Post

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — As Hillary Clinton laughed in the background, Sen. Elizabeth Warren turned one of Republican Donald Trump’s insults against him on Monday, warning that “nasty women” will be his undoing on Election Day.

Campaigning alongside Democratic presidential nominee Clinton 15 days before the election, Warren mocked Trump as a bigot and a sexist bore. She was especially colorful on the latter point.

“He thinks because he has money he can call women fat,” and rate their bodies, the Massachusetts Democrat said to whoops and applause from the Democratic crowd at Saint Anselm College.

“He thinks that because he has a mouthful of Tic Tacs he can force himself on any woman within groping distance,” Warren said, referring to Trump’s remarks in a video that he wanted some of the breath mints in case he kissed an attractive woman.

The 2005 “Access Hollywood” off-air remarks, first reported by The Washington Post, accelerated a slide in Trump’s popularity and a draining of support from Republican lawmakers.

“Donald, women have had it with guys like you,” Warren said. “And nasty women have really had it with guys like you!”

That was a reference to Trump’s ad hominem comment during last week’s presidential debate that Clinton is “such a nasty woman.”

Some Democrats have since taken the phrase as a badge of honor, as Warren did to rising applause. “Get this Donald: Nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote!” she said. “And on Nov. 8, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes and get you out of our lives forever.”

Warren’s appearance is part of the Clinton campaign’s effort to flood swing states with high-profile endorsers as the campaign comes to a close. It was also a tacit show of unity between Clinton and very liberal voters who consider Warren a champion and who, in New Hampshire, preferred liberal primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over the moderate Clinton by a wide margin.

But mostly, Warren, whose lines got louder applause than Clinton’s, was here as the best provocateur the Clinton campaign can field against Trump. He has engaged in several fierce attacks on Warren, often via Twitter.

“She gets under his thin skin like nobody else,” a delighted Clinton said at the start of her remarks.

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