The latest RealClearPolitics national average showed Clinton clinging to a 2.7 percentage-point lead over Trump, much smaller than the almost 8 percentage-point lead she enjoyed shortly after the Democratic National Convention in late July.
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“I’m determined to bring our country together and make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top”, she said.
“Just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”, Clinton said. They’re not expected to make public remarks at the event, and both have promised to suspend campaign activities out of respect for the victims, first responders and their families.
Trump argued that the remark revealed that Clinton is disconnected from struggling Americans.
“Basket of Deplorables” quickly became a trending hashtag on Twitter on Saturday.
At the NY restaurant Friday night, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying that “unfortunately there are people like that. I regret saying “half” – that was wrong”.
Many of Clinton’s fundraisers have been closed to the media, but her Friday remarks, preceding a performance by singer Barbra Streisand, were open to journalists.
As the Inquisitr reported last week, Trump has also been carving into Clinton’s lead over the past few weeks in a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that focuses on favorability and support for each candidate. Even if the comparison was imprecise – at most, Clinton’s comments referred to about one-quarter of the electorate – the Trump campaign has already sought to use the comparison to further define Clinton in the remaining months of the campaign.
“While Hillary said disgusting things about my supporters, and while many of her supporters will never vote for me, I still respect them all!”
She listed a series of controversial moments from Trump’s campaign, including his fight with a Muslim Gold Star family, criticism of a federal United States judge of Mexican heritage and his insinuation that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US.
Clinton then said some of these people were “irredeemable” and “not America”.
Clinton is still favored to win 17 states, but Trump would likely win 23 states, the poll found.
“I don’t agree with what Krystal said about those different groups, I think that it once again is just Hillary Clinton trying to divide”.
Speaking with Israel’s Channel 2, Mrs. Clinton said that by singling out Muslims during his campaign, Mr. Trump had played into the hands of extremists and helped their recruitment efforts, in effect “giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”.
On Friday, Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, said Trump’s supporters were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”.
“For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans”.
Ms. Clinton has made similar comments in the past. “And he has lifted them up”.
McMullin believes that some of the appointments Trump has made to his staff support his claims.
That level of discipline seemed to fade Friday night during a rally in a packed arena in the Florida Panhandle.
Many are still nervous about Trump, concerned about his beliefs on social issues, his bombastic persona and the personal lifestyle of the thrice-married, twice-divorced NY real estate mogul and former reality-television host. “And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd, when you observe the tone of his events”.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen.
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Donald Trump told mourners at a funeral service for conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly that she promoted the idea that the “little person” can beat “the rigged system”.
