“Last night I was “grossly generalistic, ‘ and that’s never a good idea”, the Democratic presidential nominee said in a statement Saturday”.
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Both Trump, a native New Yorker, and Clinton, who was senator from NY at the time of the attacks, have agreed to refrain from campaigning Sunday, continuing the tradition of setting aside partisan politics on the somber anniversary. But she won’t stop bringing attention to “calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”.
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”.
Trump s remark was reminiscent of a comment he made in January, when he said he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” but still not lose any support.
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“Isn t it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her failing campaign?” he said.
Although Clinton has accused Trump of racism before, she has never explicitly called him a racist.
Mrs Clinton accepted that she had been “grossly generalistic”.
Republicans are hoping to get as much ammunition as possible out of a statement Hillary Clinton made during a New York “LGBT for Hillary” fundraiser on Friday where she called out the xenophobia perpetuated by some of Donald Trump supporters.
With less than two months to go before Election Day, and the race still tight, Clinton walked back her remark on Saturday. And the other truth is if we can not call out racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamaphobic behavior as deplorable then the danger is not that our candidate may lose an election. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”.
“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”, said Trump spokesman Jason Miller.
“Many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them”, she said.
“Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms”, Mike Pence, the governor of in and Trump’s running mate, said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. While she has headlined more than 330 fundraisers as a candidate, her campaign has kept most of these events closed from reporters.
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 because they depended on government benefits and his job was “not to worry about those people”.
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Clinton made her remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday.
