Hillary Clinton is drawing criticism after saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” at a private fundraiser.
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“It’s phony strength to not know what you’re talking about, and to make outrageous statements that will actually make our job harder, no matter how in the moment it sounds”, Clinton told CNN in an interview aired Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the attacks on NY and Washington.
“If I were to be grossly generalistic, I would say you can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets”, Clinton said at the event, according to CNN.
Mrs Clinton said at a fund- raiser that Mr Trump had “lifted up” people that were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it”.
A Washington Post/ABC News survey finds Clinton with just a five-point advantage over Trump, 46 percent to the GOP nominee’s 41 percent among likely voters nationwide.
The presidential candidates greeted supporters on Sunday as they entered the downtown Manhattan memorial.
“When Donald Trump and I said that the small and bullying president of Russian Federation was a strong leader on the world stage, that wasn’t an endorsement of Vladimir Putin, that was an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of this president and [Hillary Clinton]”, Pence said at the Liberty Farms Festival in Paris, Virginia.
In remarks at the funeral Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, Donald Trump said Mrs. Schlafly was “there for me when it was not at all fashionable”.
But she went on to list a number of “deplorable” features of Mr Trump’s campaign, which she said had been “built largely on prejudice and paranoia”.
“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”, he declared. “And she wouldn’t be prosecuted”.
Mrs Clinton’s remarks late last Friday unleashed a wave of derision and mockery on social media.
At the NY restaurant Friday night, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying that “unfortunately there are people like that”. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people - now have 11 million.
“And let’s just say something happens and she gets elected, she’s supposed to represent, and to say that one quarter of the American population is those things?”
Pence piled on, saying at the Values Voter Summit that Clinton’s “low opinion” of Trump’s supporters should be “denounced in the strongest possible terms”.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen. Obama was criticized for saying small-town voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”.
But Trump on Saturday sought to use Clinton’s comments to make the same charge about her.
The criminal justice major said candidates will cause reporters to flood in and that in itself is campaigning Stevens said.
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Donald Trump says he’ll be in St. Louis later Saturday to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group. She pretty much stood by everything else.
