The racist, sexist, homo phonetic, xenophobic, Islam phobic, you name it. Reporter: The trump campaign calling the comment deplorable as he defended his affection for Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
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Speaking to the gay rights supporters, she added that those people are “irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway quickly responded on Twitter, writing, “One day after promising to be aspirational & uplifting, Hillary insults millions of Americans”.
At Friday night’s fundraiser, Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behavior as a candidate for the White House in the November 8 election.
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”.
Clinton made her comments at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday, then walked them back Saturday, saying in a statement that it was “grossly generalistic, and that’s never a good idea”.
HILLARY CLINTON has slammed half of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” with her presidential opponent hitting back that her words would cost her at the polls. “She’s just too quick to intervene, invade, or to push for regime change”, he said at the summit. “Doesn’t really even matter where it comes from”. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end.
Those people, Clinton said, could be open to persuasion. Clinton has not let the media attend many fundraisers, but a group of journalists was given access to Friday night’s event to hear her. Nonwhite voters favor her by an even wider margin, with 67 percent backing Clinton and 25 percent choosing Trump. As FactCheck.org noted at the time, many people who don’t pay federal income tax are retirees, who tend to tilt Republican.
The president of the Human Rights Campaign, Chad Griffin, called Republican nominee Donald Trump the “gravest threat” the LGBTQ community has faced in a presidential election.
While Clinton is taking heat for her comment, Trump’s brand is controversy. She said he built his campaign on “prejudice and paranoia”.
Clinton has made similar comments in the past.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, he said on Twitter.
Clinton’s growing unpopularity follows renewed focus on her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state, as well as alleged conflicts of interest over her connections to the Clinton Foundation fundraising. “For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans”, he said.
On Friday night, he told supporters in Pensacola, Florida, that Clinton could shoot someone and not be prosecuted.
“We can’t take anyone or any place for granted and therefore I am asking you to volunteer for a phone bank or a canvass”.
Republican Donald Trump appears to have carved out a wider path to the White House as a number of states including Florida and OH are no longer considered likely wins for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released on Saturday.
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“She said, “Look, I’m generalizing here, but a lot of his support is coming from this odd place, that he’s given a platform to the alt-right and white nationalists, ‘” Kaine said in an interview with the Washington Post”.
