“That may be one conversion therapy I endorse. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump said in Wilmington, N.C., before making the murderous proposal.
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Hillary Clinton is welcomed to the stage by Laverne Cox at the LBGT For Hillary Gala in NY.
He said that Trump supporters are “not a basket of anything”, adding, they are “members of every class of this country who know that we can make America great again”.
In a statement given to Bloomberg on Saturday, Trump said Clinton’s attempt to partially walk back the remark was disgraceful.
The comments quickly drew condemnation from the Trump campaign as indicative of the “politics of division” that the GOP nominee has accused her of playing. 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”.
Donald Trump told mourners at a funeral service for conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly that she promoted the idea that the “little person” can beat “the rigged system”. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now how 11 million.
According to average ticket prices and attendance figures provided by the campaign, Clinton raised around $6 million at the fundraiser, only the sixth she has opened to press.
Some of those people were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America.
Clinton then pivoted and tried to characterized the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need understanding and empathy.
“That other basket of people are 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”, Clinton said. She recently concluded a month-long fundraising swing that raised more than $140 million for her campaign.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, cited the speech in attempting to clarify the Democratic nominee’s comments Friday night.
She said she regrets only half of her statement, emphasizing that it is “really deplorable” that Trump is affiliated with people from the right-winged “alt-right movement”, and that “David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values”. Merrill argued that “alt-right” leaders are supporting Trump and “their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events”. Meanwhile even some Democrats reflected that at best it was a distraction from her campaign message, and an example of divisive political rhetoric in which a would-be president casts out a large swath of the country she hopes to lead.
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On September 18, 2012, Romney – speaking to donors – referred to the “47 percent” of voters in America who will support President Obama and his Democratic agenda because they are “dependent on government” and they will never be convinced to “take personal responsibility and care for their lives”. Obama said that small-town voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”.
