Clinton earlier this month said she considers “half” of Trump’s supporters to be “deplorables” who are “irredeemable”.
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In Portsmouth, the Virginia Senator and Hillary Clinton’s running mate spent about an hour on stage discussing Hillary Clinton’s policy goals and bashing her GOP opponent Donald Trump.
RADDATZ: So – so is it appropriate to use the word ‘irredeemable?’
“Donald Trump, as commander in chief, scares me to death”, Kaine told CBS News in an interview.
He added, however, “I think we would be unrealistic to think that some people are going to fundamentally change their view”.
Clinton’s vice presidential pick did, however, echo her use of the word “deplorable”.
KAINE: Well, look, she is very anxious, as am I, about the deplorable motivations of those who would question President Obama’s citizenship or people like David Duke, who are doing robo-calls, saying people should vote for Donald Trump.
The Democratic vice-presidential nominee told “Fox News Sunday” that Mr. Trump’s recent comments about Mrs. Clinton show he either wants his supporters to turn violent or simply doesn’t care if someone is hurt as a result of his words. “There are other Trump voters who are really concerned about economic anxieties, not demographic issues, but economic anxieties”, he said. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”. Although he has often said during the 2016 campaign that he prefers not to talk about Obama’s place of birth anymore, Trump did not say until Friday that he thinks the president is US -born.
He cited the nation’s polarized politics as a reason for the tightening polls. “And when you look at a series of these comments that he’s making, I do believe it is an incite – or at a minimum, an expression of indifference to whether violence would occur”, Kaine said. “Kaine should be ashamed of himself for saying Donald Trump would like to have violence perpetrated against Hillary Clinton”.
“A lot of campaigns get very, very engaged and resolved between Labor Day and Election Day, he said”.
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Kaine pointed to that history as a cause for his growing concern. “An African-American was not allowed to be a citizen, whether slave or free, born here or born elsewhere, until we fought a Civil War and enacted the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution”, Kaine said. “Who were you trying to appease by doing that?’ That question still needs to be answered”.
