Attempting to reduce the negative publicity generated by their candidates recent attacks on each others wives, top campaign advisors reportedly instructed Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in private meetings Monday to stick to just attacking all women in general, sources confirmed. Using derogatory language and treating women as mere objects is fine, just as long as you make sure youre making a blanket statement about the entire female population and not a specific candidates wife, okay? said Cruzs senior communications advisor, Jason Miller, repeating nearly verbatim the advice Trumps aides reportedly gave the GOP frontrunner earlier in the day during a strategy session. The publics not as receptive to you attacking Melania directly, so just keep your statements broader when denying women their individual agency and insinuating they have no identity apart from their connection to men and itll continue to go over great. Lets stick with whats been working. Advisors from both campaigns assured their candidates they could be as specific as they wanted when making sexist remarks about Hillary Clinton, however. 