President Obama said Sunday that Donald Trump is “degrading women” with his campaign for president.
In his first public comments on lewd remarks made by the Republican nominee a decade ago, Mr. Obama told Democratic donors that Mr. Trump “puffs himself up by putting other people down.”
He asked the donors, “Are we really going to risk giving Donald Trump the power to roll back all the progress we’ve made?”
The fundraiser was in Chicago for Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a candidate for Senate.
Referring to Mr. Trump’s vulgarities on tape, the president said, “I don’t need to repeat it. There’s children in the room.”
“The bottom line is if you want to send a message in this election, you have to vote for Hillary Clinton and Tammy Duckworth,” he said. “Not only are we going to win an election, we’re going to send a message to our kids about who we are, we’re going to reaffirm what this country is all about.”
• Dave Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.
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