“His behavior is unpresidential, unkind, un-everything.”
“He doesn’t come across as being very professional to me.”
“I can’t have my children grow up and look at him as someone to respect.”
After watching Monday evening’s debate, Pennsylvanians, especially Pennsylvania women, agreed that Donald Trump is wholly unfit to be Commander-in-Chief. Trump, already lagging badly with suburban women, doubled down on his divisiveness, further alienating critical voting blocs and making his difficult climb in the Keystone State even steeper.
Donald Trump bragged about not paying federal income taxes, admitted to rooting for the housing crisis, and attacked a beauty pageant contest winner for her weight and ethnicity. After the debate, it was clear to Pennsylvania voters that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate qualified to be President of the United States.
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New York Times: Suburban Women Find Little to Like in Donald Trump’s Debate Performance
Kim Gray, a Trump supporter, said she had cringed when Mrs. Clinton accused him of calling a former Miss Universe “Miss Piggy” because she gained weight and “Miss Housekeeping” because she was Latina. “That is embarrassing,” Ms. Gray, an office manager, said as she parked outside the West Chester post office. “I have a daughter. I have a son who’d never speak like that.”
AP: Reason to cringe: Female voters react to Trump
Victoria Widergren, a Republican from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, agreed. The 46-year-old builder and architect was planning to vote for Trump, but changed her mind after Monday’s debate. Widergren said she was particularly appalled to learn that the billionaire businessman hadn’t paid contractors who worked for him. But as the 90-minute debate stretched on, she, too, grew frustrated with Trump’s interruptions of Clinton, a view she said was shared by colleagues she’d spoken to after the debate.
Politico: Swing-state Republicans dump on Trump
Trump’s approach to national security and foreign policy was a particular sticking point with Bill Urbanski, a former GOP chair of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County, who said he was bothered by Trump’s seemingly contradictory response to a question about whether the U.S. should embrace a no-first-use nuclear weapons policy. “Trump was just nowhere near actually being responsive to the question that was posed,” he said. “I guess it could mean two things: one could be…trying to dodge the question because he was trying to make a particular point, but the way I read that was, he didn’t have an answer to that question.”