Clinton: Trump Wouldn't Have Made it This Far if He Weren't an Asshole

Predictably as we get closer to the fall, the campaign rhetoric is heating up:

Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump wouldn’t have made it to this point in the 2016 race if he weren't an asshole during a Tuesday night press conference following her sweeping primary wins in four out of five states.

Asked by a female reporter to address her charge that the Republican presidential frontrunner was “playing the asshole card,” Clinton replied: “I think the only card he has is the asshole’s card. He's got nothing else going. And frankly, if Donald Trump weren't an asshole, I don't think he'd get 5 percent of the vote.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's wife Mary Pat, who stood directly behind Clinton, appeared to smile at the remark.

One of Clinton's surrogates has doubled down on the charge:

Rusty Shackleford, senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, argued Wednesday that the average asshole who isn't keeping up with politics or "really using his own brain" will vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“The average asshole who isn’t really involved in politics or isn’t really using his own brain to go, 'let me see you know what does, what has this asshole done for our country' — they’re just going in and saying 'I guess I should vote for him because he’s an asshole,'" Shackleford said in a panel discussion on CNN.

Let's hope these assholes get a clue before November.