Clinton, whose remarks came during a Friday night LGBT fundraiser in NY, cast half of her GOP opponent’s supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it”, Buzzfeed News reported.
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz described Mrs Clinton’s comments as her “47 per cent moment”, a reference to when Republican candidate Mitt Romney said during a private fund-raiser in the 2012 campaign that “47 per cent” of voters would choose to return Barack Obama to the White House because they are dependent upon the government. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke out against Hillary Clinton’s description of half of Trump supporters as in ‘the basket of deplorables.’ “They are not a basket of anything”, Pence said on September 10.
“That may be one conversion therapy I’d endorse”, said Clinton, referring to a type of counseling created to urge gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children to change their sexual orientation.
At the NY event with with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) supporters, she said that she grouped Mr. Trump’s sexist, racist and homophobic supporters in a “basket of deplorables”.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill noted a previous speech in which she accused Trump of embracing a brand of USA political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism known as the “alt right” movement. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it.
“It is inconceivable to me that Hillary Clinton would have referred to her fellow citizens – people that support her opponent, people who are voters… that she would refer to them as deplorable or irredeemable”, Blackburn stated. “And (Trump) has lifted them up”.
The Washington Post is reporting that Clinton holds an advantage in the electoral college vote – 244 to 126 for Trump – if the elections were held today.
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”.
She then pivoted and tried to characterize the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need understanding and empathy.
During his speech on Friday night in Pensacola, Trump strayed from prepared remarks to suggest that Clinton is so immune from prosecution she could get away with murder.
Trump, a NY businessman who has never run for political office before, regularly says things that some consider insulting, racist or off-color.
“I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, Clinton said. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”. The fundraiser drew a sold-out crowd of 1,000, her campaign said.
The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump’s supporters at a fundraiser.
Meanwhile, the real estate mogul and his supporters pounced on Clinton’s remark, with even some of his most implacable GOP critics siding with him on the issue.
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Yet Trump has caught up to her level of support in several states. “America is better than Donald Trump”, the statement ends. Same argument, all the way down to “grossly generalistic”.
