Her remarks Friday night at a fundraising event in NY drew sharp criticism from the Republican nominee and his running mate, Mike Pence, who said it revealed her disdain for the American people.
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“As I said, many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them”, Clinton’s new statement said. “It’s not a serious presidential campaign”, she said of Trump.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took aim at supporters of Republican rival Donald Trump on Friday by saying half of them belonged in a “basket of deplorables” as people who were racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic.
Trump, speaking on Friday at the conservative Value Voters summit in Washington, painted Clinton as a “massive failure” while she was America’s top diplomat from 2009 to early 2013, blaming her for the turmoil in the Middle East.
Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behaviour as a candidate for the White House in the November 8 election.
“Some of those folks”, she added, “they are irredeemable”.
The hashtag #BasketOfDeplorables was trending on Saturday morning as many Twitter users either condemned or supported Clinton’s remarks.
The New York businessman also said on RT on Thursday he did not think Russia’s government was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee email servers, and doubted it was trying to interfere in the USA election.
While Trump has received some support from Democrats in blue-collar areas such as Youngstown, polls show he’s not particularly liked by Ohio Democrats overall.
Clinton made the remarks at the LGBT For Hillary Gala at the uber posh Cipriani Wall Street restaurant. She’s a bad person.
Responding in a tweet, Trump suggested Clinton’s comments would cost her dearly when it comes to voting day. Because we really are “stronger together”, said Mrs. Clinton. I also meant what I said last night about empathy, and the very real challenges we face as a country where so many people have been left out and left behind.
He was criticized for allegedly lobbing softball questions at Trump, while grilling Hillary Clinton on her use of a private email server, reported Business Insider’s Mark Abadi.
It could prove a stumble for a seasoned – and polarizing – politician who wants to lead a country that includes many who have embraced Trump’s exhortations to “lock her up”.
“Unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up”.
Mr. Trump asked how she could be president “when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?”
In August, she claimed at a campaign rally in Reno, Nev., that the Trump campaign is based entirely on fear and bigotry. Trump’s campaign was virtually non-existent in OH until last month, but Paduchik said the campaign now has more staff in OH than Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign had here in 2012.
Romney was recorded on video saying at a fundraiser that 47% of Americans would automatically vote for President Obama because they were dependent upon government and paid no taxes, and that his job was not to worry about them.
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During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen.
