Mr Trump had responded by saying the comment was “insulting” to “millions of unbelievable, hard working people”.
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The rhetorical scuffle comes as the candidates head into the final two months of the campaign, with Trump trying to make up ground on Clinton before the November 8 election.
She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up”.
Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who spoke at a conservative Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., Saturday, also took issue with Clinton saying millions fall into the deplorable basket.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused Trump of embracing a brand of U.S. political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement. In a July speech in Springfield, Illinois, Clinton said the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln has been transformed into “the party of Trump”, and she called it “not just a huge loss for our democracy – it is a threat to it” because her rival’s campaign “adds up to an ugly, risky message to America”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a LBGT For Hillary Gala at the Cipriani Club, in New York, Friday, Sept. 9, 2016.
“I support more special forces, enablers and trainers, as needed, intelligence gathering and reconnaissance” in the battle against jihadists, she said. Trump said in a statement. “He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric”.
Clinton made the comments before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in downtown NY.
Some of those people were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America.
Clinton urged the crowd to not ignore Trump’s other supporters, “that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down”. “How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?”
Generally, though, Clinton has avoided characterizing Trump himself as racist, instead choosing to label her opponent’s statements as racist. The fundraiser drew a sold-out crowd of 1,000, her campaign said.
In her statement Saturday, Clinton was emphatic in condemning what she said was Trump’s racially insensitive campaign.
Hillary Clinton is welcomed to the stage by Laverne Cox at the LBGT For Hillary Gala in NY.
She listed a series of controversial moments from Trump’s campaign, including his fight with a Muslim Gold Star family, criticism of a federal United States judge of Mexican heritage and his insinuation that Obama wasn’t born in the US.
Weeks before the 2012 election, Republican Mitt Romney landed in hot water for saying that 47 percent of the public would vote for President Barack Obama “no matter what” because they depended on government benefits and his job was “not to worry about those people”.
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Vesti also completely misrepresented what the US President said about his meeting with Putin, Barak Obama called the 90 minute meeting “candid, blunt and businesslike”, Vesti meanwhile claimed Obama said his meetings with Putin are always open, honest and businesslike.
