“It’s hard to watch her still encourage people to vote for him,” said Arita Balaram, 22, of the Bronx, as she sipped a caramel latte by Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn. “It’s hard to watch this as a woman.”…

“She’s such an elegant woman and she comes across so competent,” said Anna, 48, a financial worker who was eating lunch in Bryant Park and would not provide her last name. “And yet any citizen would just have to question her total acceptance of something that makes the rest of us very uneasy.”

“If she’s standing next to him, she’s doing it for the cameras,” said Geena Bale, 27, a city clerk who was eating lunch in Downtown Brooklyn. “There’s no way that she can be O.K. with what he did.”