Hillary Clinton’s campaign is advising fellow Democrats who speak on her behalf to chastise the press for applying a different standard to her if pressed by interviewers about Clinton’s characterization of half of Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorables”.
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Hillary Clinton sought to recover Sunday from a major campaign blunder with just over two weeks to go before the first debate in her battle with Donald Trump for the White House.
“Last night I was “grossly generalistic”, and that’s never a good idea”.
“The fact that Clinton is returning home to NY on such an impactful day makes me support her even more”, Bontrager said.
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.
Mr Trump had responded by saying the comment was “insulting” to “millions of incredible, hard working people”. “Trump has given these folks a voice through the hateful rhetoric of his campaign”.
Trump told the crowd he believes that Clinton – under fire for using a private email server when she was secretary of state – is so immune from prosecution she could get away with murder.
Pence said Clinton “low opinion” of the American people disqualified her from being elected president. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”, he said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
Clinton made her initial remarks about Trump supporters at a lavish LGBT fundraiser that featured performances from Barbra Streisand and Rufus Wainwright.
Trump’s running mate Mike Pence said Clinton had disrespected voters. At a rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, he said Clinton is “so protected” that “she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching, right smack in the middle of the heart”. Republicans were quick to denounce her remarks, with Trump even tweeting that this may have cost her the election.
Mr. Trump, who likes to say Mr. Romney blew it for the Republican Party, swiftly connected the dots on Twitter, where political impressions travel at light speed.
Clinton had earlier divided Trump’s supporters into “two big baskets”, what she called “the deplorables”, in an interview with Channel 2 News Israel that aired on Thursday.
Clinton then pivoted and tried to characterize the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need empathy.
“By referring to millions of Americans as “deplorables” and ‘irredeemable, ‘ Hillary Clinton is showing her outright contempt for ordinary people and proving yet again why Americans overwhelmingly regard her as dishonest and untrustworthy”. Clinton now has an 83pc chance of winning the election by an average of 47 votes in the Electoral College, the body that ultimately selects the president. “As I said, 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”.
Romney said he was talking about Obama supporters, but many real and potential Romney supporters might have heard his comments and seen themselves in them.
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“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill tweeted.
