Many women voters "simply don't trust" Hillary Clinton, and that presents a great opportunity for the Republican Party, conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly told
Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
"The Democrats don't want her," Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth. "That's the problem — and they don't know how to get rid of her.
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"They have a real problem that way because she thought she owned the party.
"She doesn't pass the trustworthy test," Schlafly added. "We may have a situation this year where the Republican candidate is actually chosen by the delegates who go to the convention in Cleveland.
"That will be a first in many years, because most of the time people who think they're important decide ahead of time who the nominee will be and they give us a bunch of losers," she said. "This time, the grassroots want to pick their own candidate."
But Schlafly doesn't think that will be former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina.
"I don't know that she will get the nomination for president," she told Hayworth. "She might get the nomination for vice president — but in any event she's an extremely attractive candidate and she is a perfectly wonderful answer to Hillary, because she's so much different from Hillary is so many ways.
"We're proud of Carly Fiorina."
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