Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likened the 2016 Republican presidential field to “terrorist groups” on women’s issues during a campaign stop Thursday in Ohio.
While speaking to a crowd at Case Western Reserve University, Clinton said that while she expects “extreme views” on women’s rights to be espoused by “terrorist groups,” she does not expect the same from “Republicans who want to be president” in 2016.
The former secretary of state named Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the speech.
“Now, extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don’t want to live in the modern world, but it’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States,” Clinton told the crowd, “yet they espouse out-of-date and out-of-touch policies.”
“They are dead wrong for 21st century for America,” Clinton boomed. “We are going forward. We are not going back.”
The Republican National Committee was quick to fire back at the Democratic front-runner, saying she needs to apologize “immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric.”
“For Hillary Clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign,” RNC national press secretary Allison Moore said. “She should apologize immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric.”
