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Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said in an interview Tuesday that former President Trump's messaging surrounding women is "very infantilizing" and emphasized its implications for this election cycle.
"I started laughing and thinking he was creepy, but then thinking more about it, it is very infantilizing, talking about women as though we're weak, we're meek, we need a protector, we need a defender, and we just sit around thinking about abortions all day," Farah Griffin, who worked in the Trump administration, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"It just underscores a fundamental lack of understanding for why a demographic that represents half of the country is one that he is struggling so profoundly with," she added.
Farah Griffin said that if Trump loses in November, she thinks that he will regret not having a female running mate.
"I think Donald Trump, if he loses this election is going to look back and think that one of the worst decisions he made was not having a female on the ticket who actually knows how to speak to living, breathing, normal women about issues that matter to them," she said.
Farah Griffin also mentioned reproductive rights, a top campaign issue for Vice President Harris, in particular.
"And I would just finally say, yes, reproductive rights do matter. Access to IVF, to the whole suite of care that women care about, whether it be abortion or so on. But economics, national security are also women's issues and just the way he is talking about them is not the way to sway voters in the middle," Farah Griffin said.
The Hill has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.
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