“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 Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, in a statement Friday night.
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The latest polls national polls Sunday gave Democrat Hillary Clinton as much as an 8-point edge over Republican Donald Trump, but voters say they are upset about the lack of national unity and unsure whether either of the major party candidates can keep the country safe. A slight difference. Plus, Romney was talking about people who may have actually chosen to support him whereas Clinton was referring to people who in no way would vote for her.
Pence’s response was the most forceful effort by Trump’s campaign to seize on Clinton’s remark and try to ensure maximum damage was inflicted on her campaign.
Scripted Hillary Clinton veered off her highly-orchestrated 30-year course to become president.
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. At the NY restaurant, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying “unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up”. If you don’t support her, Hillary says you’re “an irredeemable, deplorable” American.
She described them as “people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change”. “Those are people we have to understand and empathise with as well”.
Trump’s running mate, IN governor Mike Pence, lambasted Clinton IN a midday speech at a gathering of conservative voters, and campaign officials instructed surrogates to highlight Clinton’s remarks IN their public appearances. Trump Republicans have long suggested Hillary Clinton, who is 68, is in questionable or indifferent health, and the wingnuts among them have carried the conjecture into conspiratorial territory, attributing all kinds of ailments and diseases to her. That’s the day of the disaster, ” said Paul, while a picture of Clinton was on the screen, “Then New York Junior Senator there seen listening to firefighters as they toured Ground Zero.
Trump, a NY businessman who has never run for political office before, regularly says things that some consider insulting, racist or off-color. Trump’s son Eric tweeted a photo of a packed stadium of supporters, saying, “Look at the #BasketOfDeplorables in Pensacola Florida last night!”
“Because she’s being so protected, she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn’t be prosecuted, okay?” he said. Merrill argued that “alt-right” leaders are supporting Trump and “their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events”. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now how 11 million. “I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely”.
Clinton’s comment could nevertheless end up being a boon to Trump.
Democratic strategists said the damage to Clinton’s campaign from her remark would depend on the Republican and media response in coming days.
“We’re moving to the part of the election process where there’s a lot less persuasion of new voters and more persuasion of the people who like you to turn out and work to elect you”, he added.
Clinton has not let the media into many private fundraisers, but press was allowed in to hear her remarks Friday.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s use of the word “half”, immediately made Republicans associate it with Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” line from the campaign that was secretly recorded. His campaign struggled to recover after the remark leaked.
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The main culprit: a steady stream of negative stories that raise questions about Clinton’s character, including recent revelations about her interactions with Clinton Foundation donors at the time that she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
