'Pig, slob, ugly': Trump's own body-shaming insults against women feature in Clinton's new advert
Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway musical Hamilton, meanwhile, mockingly sings GOP candidate's tweets.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's own words are being used against him in two new campaign ads from republican nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton's new advert, titled Mirrors, features a selection of apparently self-doubting adolescent girls, gazing into mirrors as Trump's body-shaming insults about women are played back.
Sound bites include Trump talking about one woman's "fat ugly face," and calling others a "slob" and a "pig", while if someone is "flat-chested it's very difficult to be a 10," he says at one point.
The video ends with a clip of Trump being asked, "Do you treat women with respect?"
"Uh, I can't say that either," he answers, grinning. The ad then asks: "Is this the president we want for our daughters?"
The insults featured in the ads are the same slurs that news reporter Megyn Kelly repeated during a Republican presidential primary debate last year when she asked Trump how he could expect votes from female voters. Trump later retweeted a message in which someone called Kelly a "bimbo," and said Kelly had "blood coming out of her . . . whatever."
In a second, humorous advert, the writer and star of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, sings a series of Trump tweets. He swears he hasn't changed a word but simply set them to background tunes.
They include what Miranda calls Trump's "backhanded holiday greetings" — and sings the candidate's tweet: "Happy Thanksgiving to all — even the haters and losers!"
He also features what he dubs "racially questionable holiday greetings" and picks out a tweet in which Trump pretended to tuck into a taco bowl, wished everyone a Happy Cinco de Mayo and declared: "I love Hispanics!"
At the end of the ad "Trump: The Musical" appears, which is "Coming November ... (maybe)."
Miranda ends the video with a simple word: "Vote."
On the eve of the presidential candidate debates, Clinton and Trump are running virtually neck and neck. Just days after an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll gave Clinton a 7-point lead, a new poll by ABC and the Washington Post has her just 2 points ahead among likely voters.
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