Clinton and Trump battle for women voters

(AP) -- Hillary Clinton is focusing on so-called "work-life balance" issues as she campaigns in northern Virginia today. She's targeting white women - a demographic group that President Barack Obama

News 12 Staff

May 10, 2016, 8:48 PM

Updated 3,095 days ago

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(AP) -- Hillary Clinton is focusing on so-called "work-life balance" issues as she campaigns in northern Virginia today.



She's targeting white women - a demographic group that President Barack Obama lost - in her early effort to defeat GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Her campaign believes women, particularly those in battleground states, will be turned off by his history of sexist statements.



Clinton is highlighting her support for increased family leave and equal pay at an event with parents in a coffee shop in suburban Loudoun County, Va. - a battleground county outside Washington where the votes of affluent women are critical.



"We need to really start looking at these programs from the lens of what life is like today and not what it was like 50 years ago," she says.



Clinton says the problems facing families today are "just harder" than the ones she dealt with as a young lawyer in Arkansas trying to raise her daughter, Chelsea.



"Costs are greater, everything from commuting time to feeling like if you take that vacation day, you are going to be viewed as slacking off," she says.



Meanwhile, Clinton is refusing to respond to Donald Trump's recent comments that she was an "enabler" of Bill Clinton's marital infidelities during his political career.



Clinton tells reporters following an event in a politically critical Virginia suburb that she has "nothing to say" about the Republican front-runner "and how he's running his campaign."