Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday said she regretted saying “half” of Republican rival Donald Trump’s supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables”, but made no apologies for calling out “prejudice and paranoia” among Trump’s campaign and supporters.
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Clinton said she regretted her “grossly generalistic” comments, but maintained it was “deplorable” that Trump’s campaign had “given a national platform to hateful views and voices”.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused Trump of embracing a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement. “Unfortunately there are people like that”. “They say I have the most loyal people. where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
She described them as “people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change”.
Suffolk found Trump with the support of 44% of likely North Carolina voters, a statistically insignificant three points better than Clinton’s 41%.
There was even a mock account called “Hillary’s Basket”, with the handle @TheDeplorables, deriding the former first lady and U.S. senator.
Clinton made the comments before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in downtown NY.
“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans”, Mr. Miller said.
In a recent poll from the nonpartisan Pew Research Centre, about one in four voters said they were undecided or did not know when asked to choose between Clinton and Trump. She and affiliated committees had $152 million, compared to Trump’s $97 million, as the campaign told the Wall Street Journal this week.
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“To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”. Nonwhite voters favor her by an even wider margin, with 67 percent backing Clinton and 25 percent choosing Trump.
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Trump, in an early Saturday tweet, called Clinton’s fundraiser remarks “insulting” and contended that they will cost her at the polls.
Pence said, “the men and women who support Donald Trump’s campaign are hard-working Americans: Farms, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community”.
“The effect of the Republican and Democratic conventions on the presidential race has run its course”, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the poll.
Gallagher said Trump is worthy of support from pro-life voters because Trump also supports a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion-a position supported by more than 60 percent of the electorate.
And Trump’s son Eric posted a photo of a packed sports arena. What a terrible statement.
“We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”, Clinton told reporters traveling with her from OH to IL.
Clinton – who’s said she’s the candidate to unify a divided country- made the comment at an LGBT fundraiser Friday night at a New York City restaurant, with about 1,000 people in attendance.
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Trump has lamented the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute Clinton on criminal charges over her handling of classified emails while secretary of state.
