The Republican accused her of a “grotesque attack on American voters”.
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“I still remember my late father, a gruff, former Navy man, on his knees, praying by his bed every night”, she said. I regret saying “half”-that was wrong”.
The shift comes as opinion polls tighten between Clinton, the former secretary of state and USA senator, and Trump, a NY businessman, ahead of the November 8 election.
“We believe we have to work extra hard to make sure that the positive notion of what she wants to do breaks through given the amount of interest that there is (in Trump) and what he says and also in what we say about him”, Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters on her plane.
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have clashed over national security again, Trump calling his Democratic rival “trigger happy” and Clinton arguing his proposals would make the world a more risky place.
A CNN/ORC Poll released on Wednesday shows Donald Trump has closed the gap with Clinton and leads her nationally in the race for the White House by two points.
“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”, Clinton said Friday night at a fundraiser focused on the LGBT community at the Cipriani Wall Street restaurant in NY.
But “Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia”, she said, adding: “I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”.
“Basket of Deplorables” quickly became a trending hashtag on Twitter on Saturday.
The head of the Republican National Committee is describing Hillary Clinton’s description of Donald Trump supporters as “insulting”. “That may be one conversion therapy I’d endorse”, Clinton joked.
“The media is so terribly dishonest”, Trump said, criticizing reporters who called him out for repeating the claim that he opposed the war Wednesday during a forum in NY. “A battle that started a board an aircraft carrier catapulted into a dogfight today”, hyped anchor Scott Pelley to start off CBS Evening News Thursday, “We learned more about how they intend to fight America’s enemies and each other”. “And she wouldn’t be prosecuted”.
“She has unabashedly identified with a lot of the issues and concerns that our community has raised and worked with President Obama on them”, he said, specifically citing her work with the “Mothers of the Movement” who were featured at the Democratic National Convention and have spoken on behalf of Clinton on the trail in the past.
Responding to a question, Trump called Clinton a “bad person” and alleged that she would be a “disaster” for evangelicals.
“And he has lifted them up”, Clinton continued.
The Trump education plan would use a block grant – sent to states – to support 11 million poor children.
“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. And I opposed the reckless way Hillary Clinton took us out”.
The Republican also renewed his praise for Putin and his disdain for President Barack Obama, arguing that “it’s a very different system and I don’t happen to like the system, but certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen. “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?”
Under normal circumstances, you might assume that would make it awkward for Trump’s backers to take full-throated advantage of any new Hillary-Bill wrinkle that seemed to have a tinge of pay-for-play potential.
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Trump lost no time in denouncing the clarification.
