Mr Trump was quick to slam Mrs Clinton on Twitter, writing: “Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of unbelievable, hard working people”.
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“The white supremacists who go out and say that they are supporting Donald Trump, they’re deplorable”, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) said on Fox.
Trump’s statement came after Clinton had backed off her disdainful description of half of his supporters.
During her remarks, she talked about the year’s “volatile political environment” and said that to be “grossly generalistic”, Trump’s supporters could be put into two categories.
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”.
In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them. “And he has lifted them up”. On Saturday, she issued a statement that began with an expression of regret but ended with an excoriation of proposals, remarks and actions by Trump that Clinton said indicated a campaign built “largely on prejudice and paranoia”. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”.
Mrs. Clinton reportedly planned to steer her campaign away from personal attacks on her Republican rival.
“I was just seeing this morning there’s some press event in D.C. today by a white nationalist group that’s talking about how they’ve received a higher profile because of the Trump campaign”.
“Last night I was “grossly generalistic, ‘ and that’s never a good idea”, she said in a statement”.
But the newspaper points to lagging support among Clinton’s supporters that could translate into lower turnout for her on Election Day.
Whether her “basket of deplorables” comment has all that it takes for Hillary to lose is, of course, another story.
Trump is calling Clinton’s comments a “grotesque attack” and questioning how she can be president when “she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans”.
Among registered voters, Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, 45 to 35 percent.
Donald Trump’s Twitter account had a field day, as it threw tweets peppered with CAPS-LOCK warning Clinton’s way.
Trump rebuked Clinton on Twitter, his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called for Clinton to apologise, and his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, chastised her in a speech Saturday.
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.
The criminal justice major said candidates will cause reporters to flood in and that in itself is campaigning Stevens said.
Romney’s remarks likely hurt him with independent voters, but it’s unclear if Clinton’s “deplorable” gaffe will have such an impact.
Weeks before the 2012 election, Republican Mitt Romney landed in hot water for saying that 47 percent of the public would vote for President Barack Obama because they depended on government benefits and his job was “not to worry about those people”.
Clinton has made similar comments in the past.
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“The comments need to be dissected and put into context”, said Symone Sanders, a Democratic strategist and former spokeswoman for Clinton’s primary opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
