Trump says "whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them"

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday astatine a run rally that "whether nan women for illustration it aliases not," he will "protect" them, noting that his advisers had instructed him not to usage nan line, which he said they deemed "inappropriate."

Speaking adjacent Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump tried to hammer nan Biden-Harris management connected immigration, saying they had  "imported criminal migrants" to participate nan state and to "assault, rape and execution our women and girls." He past added that "anyone who would fto monsters kidnap and termination our children does not beryllium anyplace adjacent nan Oval Office."

The erstwhile president past described really he would "protect" women, though he noted that his squad had urged him against utilizing nan line.

"My group told maine astir 4 weeks ago, I would opportunity 'no, I want to protect nan people. I want to protect nan women of our country. I want to protect nan women,'" Trump said, describing really his advisers said it would beryllium "very inappropriate for you to say." 

"I said, 'Well, I'm going to do it, whether nan women for illustration it aliases not, I'm going to protect them,'" Trump said. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile President Donald Trump greets supporters during a run arena astatine nan Resch Center connected October 30, 2024 successful Green Bay, Wisconsin.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump went connected to inquire nan crowd, to applause, "is location immoderate female successful this elephantine stadium who would for illustration not to beryllium protected? Is location immoderate female successful this stadium that wants to beryllium protected by nan president?" 

The comments travel arsenic a caller CBS News poll showed a widening gender spread among voters, pinch women supporting Vice President Kamala Harris by a 10-point margin. Among nan findings, 40% of registered women voters opportunity that nan Trump run is paying excessively overmuch attraction to men's concerns, and 56% saying nan run is paying excessively small attraction to women's concerns. 

In caller weeks, Trump besides referred to himself arsenic "father of IVF," and he's sustained disapproval for disparaging remarks he's made astir his opponent. Meanwhile, erstwhile ambassador to nan UN Nikki Haley, who competed against Trump during nan primary, has pointed retired really captious women are successful this election, while urging nan Trump run not to "get overly masculine."

"Fifty-three percent of nan electorate are women," Haley said connected Fox News earlier this week. "Women will vote. They attraction astir really they're being talked to and they attraction astir nan issues. They request to retrieve that."