Still, one man has without a doubt consigned himself to the basket of deplorables, and that’s Trump himself, who vilifies undocumented immigrants and Muslims and Mexicans, mocks disabled people and has the widest misogynistic streak of any candidate in memory. ‘Unfortunately there are people like that. “And [Trump] has lifted them up”. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it”.
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Some of those were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America.
“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. “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?”
“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”, he said.
When Pence initially said he meant to discuss Clinton’s remarks, he rummaged through papers before him and said, “Let me see where someone put them here”.
They are more likely to describe Africans Americans as “criminal”, “unintelligent”, “lazy”, and “violent”.
“I was “grossly generalistic” and that’s never a good idea”, said Clinton.
Trump tweeted Clinton’s comments were “insulting” and suggested they’ll hurt her poll numbers. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”, he added.
Trump, a NY businessman who has never run for political office before, regularly says things that some consider insulting, racist or off-colour.
That level of discipline seemed to fade Friday night during a rally in a packed arena in the Florida Panhandle.
Clinton’s initial remark about a “basket of deplorables” recalled comments about voters also at private fundraisers that have tripped up past presidential nominees.
“I think it’s ridiculous that there’s a debate about whether Donald Trump has a sizable bloc of supporters who are racists”, said one Democratic operative close to the Clinton campaign who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly.
The remarks in front of the LGBT crowd echoed Mrs. Clinton’s previous dismissals of the people who support the Republican nominee, but this time she put a number on it. Her lead in national and battleground state polls has narrowed in recent weeks, giving fresh hope to Trump’s supporters.
The vice presidential nominee also maintained Trump would appoint justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in the mold of the late anti-LGBT U.S. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
The comment was reminiscent of Trump’s January description of the loyalty of his supporters.
In her statement, Clinton said of Trump: “it’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage, ‘ bullied a Gold Star family due to their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American”. Trump campaign officials, however, decided not to change plans to keep the Republican’s surrogates off of Sunday morning news talk shows out of respect for the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Tim Kaine, being “on different pages” about whether Clinton should have apologized for the episode.
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Pointing out the similarities, Trump retweeted a September 2012 post from the Obama campaign’s Twitter account in response to Romney’s comment: “RT if you agree: We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off almost half the country”. Clinton, by contrast, hasn’t been actively trying to get votes from Americans who harbor strong racial animosities.
