Showing on The View yesterday, billionaire Mark Cuban, one among Kamala Harris’s fiercest advocates, was requested what he thinks about Trump seemingly not calling on former presidential candidate Nikki Haley for assistance on the marketing campaign path.
Cuban answered: “Donald Trump, you by no means see him round sturdy, clever girls. Ever. It’s simply that easy. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t wish to be challenged by them and, you understand, Nikki Haley will name him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and the way he sees and treats and talks about girls. I imply, he simply can’t have her round. It wouldn’t work.”
A few of the discuss present hosts appeared to interpret the remarks as referring to girls who seem side-by-side with Trump whereas campaigning relatively than his supporters, as Whoppi Goldberg stated, “I feel he means on stage and stuff.” However Cuban nonetheless confronted some backlash.
He later clarified on X that he is aware of many sturdy, clever girls who’re voting for Trump, together with some in his prolonged household; that he isn’t saying feminine voters aren’t good, sturdy, or clever; and that he is aware of Trump has labored with sturdy and clever girls previously. However he stands by his opinion that Trump doesn’t wish to be challenged publicly.
Cuban has since apologized for what he stated, claiming it might not have come out appropriately, and that it wasn’t about Trump voters, supporters, or workers.
Trump had phrases for Cuban. He posted on X: “Mark Cuban, a extremely dumb man, who thinks he’s ‘scorching stuff’ however he’s completely nothing, is now on the market saying that I don’t encompass myself with sturdy girls. Truly, he’s very mistaken, I encompass myself with the strongest of ladies – With the understanding that ALL girls are nice, whether or not sturdy or not sturdy.”
Trump continued, after just a few extra jabs: “I’ll, in truth, be surrounded by the strongest girls within the World, together with Heads of International locations, who make Mark seem like a ‘child!’ All sturdy girls, and ladies generally, must be very indignant about this weak man’s assertion.”
Trump has frequently insulted girls who could pose a menace to him, akin to his former opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump as soon as known as her “the satan” and an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelity, who “attacked those self same girls and attacked them viciously,” he stated. Trump has deemed former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi an “enemy from inside.” And in referring to his present rival, he’s known as her “Lyin’ Kamala” and “Comrade Kamala.” He’s additionally known as her “dumb as a rock.”
The posts from the previous president and the famed Shark Tank choose have hundreds of thousands of views, and we’re lower than every week away from the election. It’s been extensively reported that there’s a gender hole on this election: Harris has stronger help from girls in swing states, and Trump has stronger help from males in swing states.
Trump wants girls, and Haley could have been a technique to attain them through her personal supporters—however she’s solely on “standby” for his marketing campaign, Haley not too long ago stated. She has endorsed Trump, however criticized the ticket’s rhetoric towards girls, suggesting they “want to vary the best way they discuss girls,” in an earlier interview.
Trump has tried to enchantment to girls, however whether or not it’s working or not is unclear. Throughout a rally this week, he stated he’d shield American girls, “whether or not the ladies prefer it or not.”
Harris is utilizing these phrases towards him on the marketing campaign path, and stated at a rally: “He merely doesn’t respect the liberty of ladies or the intelligence of ladies to know what’s in their very own finest pursuits and make selections accordingly. However we belief girls.”
On one other earlier event, he stated his administration can be nice for girls and their reproductive rights. That’s regardless of Trump taking credit score for overturning Roe v. Wade by appointing three Supreme Courtroom justices who had been within the majority that voted to finish a constitutional proper to abortion.
We’ll see who girls present out for, and if this on-line interplay between the 2 male billionaires makes a lot of a distinction.
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