October 5, 2016 | No Comments
For all his attacks against Donald Trump’s history with women, it was Tim Kaine whose vice presidential debate strategy featured a healthy dose of sexism, according to the Republican nominee’s campaign manager.
Kellyanne Conway said Kaine’s debate performance Tuesday night was “terrible” in no small part because of his repeated interruptions of moderator Elaine Quijano. She suggested that such a strategy represented the sexism that Hillary Clinton’s campaign so often tries to hang on Trump.
“You know, in addition to Governor Pence’s stellar, spectacular performance, Tim Kaine was just terrible,” Conway said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” Wednesday morning. “The interruption and frankly the ignoring of the female moderator was really a low point throughout the debate.”
“Wait, are you suggesting that was sexist?” host Steve Doocy asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
“I love using that word. It’s the word that the left and the Democrats and Hillary Clinton folks love to employ against everyone who doesn’t support her. If you don’t support Hillary Clinton, you’re a sexist,” Conway replied. “So why in the world was her running mate interrupting and ignoring the female moderator, Asian-American female moderator by the way, completely? It was almost like it was a strategy. It was almost like he didn’t hear her. And it came off terribly on TV.”
Conway went on to attack Kaine over his exchange with Pence on the issue of abortion. She labeled the Virginia senator’s talking point, that the GOP ticket is anti-women because it is anti-abortion, as stale and added that “abortion is like a religion to many” in the media.
“Tim Kaine was trying to go there and pretend that Donald Trump and Mike Pence are against women,” she said. “They talk about women’s issues and it’s really euphemism for abortion, or they’ll talk about women’s health and they really mean abortion. So forcing them to even say that word — we at the Trump-Pence campaign think all issues are women’s issues.”