Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that when he suggested Carly Fiorina's face would make her unelectable, he wasn't talking about her looks.
"I'm not talking about looks. I'm talking about persona," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."
That's how Trump defended the remarks he made about his fellow GOP presidential contender in a Rolling Stone profile published Wednesday.
"Look
at that face!" Trump told the magazine while sitting with a Rolling
Stone reporter as Fiorina appeared on TV. "Would anyone vote for that?
Can you imagine that, the face of our next president."
"I
mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posedta say bad things, but really,
folks, come on. Are we serious?" Trump said, according to the magazine.
Trump didn't only call in to CNN. He had a similar message on The View, the afternoon talk show geared toward women.
"Look,
I'm talking about her persona," he said, deflecting to Fiorina's
previous career as CEO of Hewlett Packard. "She failed miserably at
Hewlett Packard and ran for the Senate and lost in a landslide and now
running for president. I'm talking about her persona."
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton was quick to allude to it Thursday morning during a campaign event in Ohio.
"We
hear from candidates on the other side about turning back the clock on
women's rights and there is one particular candidate who just seems to
delight in insulting women," Clinton said. "I'm just saying, if he
emerges, I would love to debate him."
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