Clinton Cashes In On One Of Her Biggest Trump Cards---Donald Trump

By R. Siva Kumar - 03 May '16 09:53AM
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Donald Trump has helped his rival and contestant, Hillary Clinton, to cash in on her luck. As a critic put it: "When Donald J. Trump reiterated his claim during his Tuesday night victory rally that Hillary Clinton was playing the "woman's card," her aides heard something else: ka-ching,"

Hence, that line of his has had her hauling up a significant trove of funds in three days after he dropped her "woman's card." It got her $2.4 million through emails and some products.

They included a hot, pink "Woman Card" that read "Congratulations! You're in the majority," some "Deal me in" T-shirts and a deck of cards with numbers like "Only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women."

Clinton had said at her victory rally in Philadelphia Tuesday night: "The other day, Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, 'woman card.' Well, if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in."

Later, she flew to Teterboro Airport on Tuesday night. But Trump got her another piece of good luck when he used the expression again.

The aides were thrilled, and the communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, put a call to its digital director, Jenna Lowenstein. Palmieri approved a video combining Trump's "woman's card" comments with Clinton's "deal me in" retort.

That video was viewed three million times, revealed Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign.

It also said on Monday that it had "outraised" Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the first time in months. This brought in $26.4 million in April. The campaigners said that the "woman's card merchandise and fund-raising emails and text messages" was a bonanza that helped to bring in 127,000 donations from 118,000 donors, 40 percent of whom had never donated before to the campaign.

Hence, the Clinton campaign's best speaker, at times, has proved to be Donald Trump. That is why her aides look forward to a lot more speeches from him.

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