Repub women warn there will be a backlash if Trump keeps attacking Hillary about Bill's past.

[pnwmom]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/01/06/trump-bill-clinton-sex-scandals-republican-women/78352482/

It’s not that they’re waving Trump off the issue to help Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. On the contrary, they’re worried that the more Trump talks about a troubled period of the Clintons’ marital history, the more likely it could backfire and rally independent and even some Republican women to the side of the former first lady.

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Women voters are likely to recoil over Trump’s contention in recent interviews that the former first lady was an “enabler” of her husband’s liaisons, including his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, said Nancy Dwight, a former National Republican Congressional Committee executive director. “I’m uncomfortable with it, I just am,” Dwight said, adding that she particularly didn't like a candidate discussing it.

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Packer's company, Burning Glass Consulting, has conducted a series of focus groups and polling in competitive general election states showing the issue is a political "minefield" for the party in a general election. Trump's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

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“It’s the quickest way to get women to come to (Clinton's) defense,” Packer said.

For some younger Republican women, the approach is irksome. Two registered Republican friends, at 37 both old enough to remember Lewinsky, said that if Trump is the GOP nominee, his rhetoric may lead them to vote for Clinton.

[leftofcool]

1. It has already backfired among Republican women

If the women in my little county, (mostly Republican women) are any indication of Trump's problems, I guarantee you, Hillary will have the Republican female vote.

[Nonhlanhla]

2. I suspect

that Hillary will have a sizeable portion of the Republican female vote anyway. Not the religious right types, who will never vote for a pro-choice candidate. But certainly some other GOP women.

I also suspect she will get some more sane male Republicans, if there are any left, if someone like Trump is the nominee.

[comradebillyboy]

3. There seem to be plenty of posters here at DU

who are also attacking Hillary in this fashion. I wonder if that will reflect poorly on their preferred candidate?

[okasha]

4. I know several Republican/conservative women

who will go quietly over the fence for Hillary next November.