Republican nominee Donald Trump's remarks on women haven't gone unnoticed by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who had a fiery exchange with Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway over her dismissing accusations of misogyny made against her candidate.
During an interview on "The Kelly File" Wednesday night, Conway complained the Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton focused too much on Trump's history with women. Conway said Trump's opinion was that "it's not nice that you're running hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads against me, and he has a point."
Kelly pointed out that political advertisements aren't expected to be nice, but Conway argued "the ads should be true," prompting the host to say that the ads use Trump's own words. Conway later accused the Clinton campaign of cherry-picking quotes to paint Trump in a poor light with women.
"You raise the question about, you know, he made a couple comments over 25 years. You know that's not true. You know he has repeatedly made comments about women, about their looks, about their size, their weight," Kelly said in response. "Even in this campaign, talking about Carly Fiorina's face, retweeting a negative picture about Heidi Cruz's face. Criticizing Hillary Clinton and her look. And Kellyanne, this is an issue for him, is it not?"
Conway then went back to accusing Clinton of not focusing on the issues. "I'm just wondering why she's spending tens of millions of dollars in negative ads and negative mail pieces and never putting together an aspirational, positive vision."
"Because she's killing him with women and she sees an advantage there and she's trying to exploit it," Kelly said. "And my question to you is whether he needs to come up with a better answer than telling "Fox & Friends" well, she gained a bunch of weight when she won Miss Universe and she was a real problem."
An NBC News poll shows Trump doing even worse with women voters after the debate, with 27 percent saying they came away from the event thinking worse of the Republican.
"What I would say to that is this, that he should speak to America's women based on the issues about which they care, prosperity and security, and he should talk about Obamacare and education and he should talk about the lies that Hillary Clinton has told over many different decades," Conway said. "I think he should brag more about the thousands of women he has employed at the Trump Corporation over decades and the high positions that they have. They've been promoted, they've been well-compensated."