"If he (Trump) wants to engage in personal attacks from the past, that's his prerogative. You know, so be it. He can say whatever he wants to about me. Let the voters judge that," Clinton told CBS news in an interview.
"But I am not going to let him or any of the other Republicans rip away the progress that women have made. It's been too hard-fought-for. And I'm going to stand up and make it clear there's a huge difference between us," she asserted.
"It's been fair game going back to the Republicans for some years. They can do it again if they want to. That can be their choice as to how to run in this campaign. Didn't work before. It won't work again, because it is what people are focused on, not for the past, but for the future," Clinton said.
"What are we going to do to get wages rising? What are we going to do to create more good jobs? What are we going to do keep rights? What are we going to do to make sure that the Supreme Court has people on it who will defend women's rights, who will defend marriage equality, who will defend voter rights?" she asked.
Clinton said she stays focused on her presidential campaign.
If elected she would be the first woman president of the United States.
"I stay pretty focused, as I think we all should, on what we have to do to build on the progress of the Obama administration, but go even further. And that's why I have outlined a very significant agenda to raise wages and to take on the gun lobby and to be making America safe in every way that I can," she said.
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