Hillary Clinton said Saturday she regretted saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” – a remark the billionaire Republican slammed as her “worst mistake of the political season”.
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With polls showing that Trump enjoys about 45 percent support, Clinton managed to insult over 22 percent of the country, and Republicans took her to task, beginning with the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign manager.
She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up”.
Mr Trump had responded by saying the comment was “insulting” to “millions of fantastic, hard working people”.
“I think we can all agree that if Donald Trump said something controversial about Clinton supporters, it wouldn’t have been in his top ten list of offensive statements in day”, the advice reads.
Clinton, 68, also told the fundraiser crowd that other Trump supporters feel let down by the government and the economy, and are “desperate for change”.
Earlier in the day, spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement, “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”.
A narrator says: “You know what’s deplorable?”
But the Democrat launched a furious attack on her Republican opponent and promised to keep fighting “bigotry and racist rhetoric”.
Clinton leads Trump by 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, the poll found. “We have to protect our country by working with one another, and that most certainly includes the American Muslim community”.
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives for a memorial service at the National 9/11 Memorial.
Donald Trump said Monday that he had a medical exam last week and will release the results “when the numbers come in”, as the health of both major party presidential candidates has been thrust to the fore of the 2016 campaign following Hillary Clinton’s recent pneumonia diagnosis. “I think they’re going to be good”, Trump said on Fox News on Monday morning. She later said she regretted using the word “half”.
“They are Americans, and they deserve your respect”, he tweeted. He said if one side were to campaign it would be disrespectful to those who were affected by the attack.
Clinton’s “narrower advantage among likely voters, just beyond the poll’s 4.5 percentage-point margin of error, could reflect weaker engagement among her supporters”, the Washington Post said in its report on the poll.
Trump, 70, only released a letter from his doctor that said he would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
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The pneumonia disclosure was made public hours after her campaign said she had become “overheated” to explain why, knees buckling and unsteady, she was rushed from a ceremony marking the September 11, 2001, attacks in NY.
