“As long as Trump stays out of the way and doesn’t overshadow Hillary’s comment, her “basket of deplorables” comment should dominate the media in the coming days and runs the risk of negatively defining her campaign”, said Republican strategist Doug Heye.
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“It is inconceivable to me that Hillary Clinton would have referred to her fellow citizens – people that support her opponent, people who are voters… that she would refer to them as deplorable or irredeemable”, Blackburn stated.
“Isn’t it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her failing campaign?” he said. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy. Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself, and this proves beyond a doubt that she is unfit and incapable to serve as President of the United States.
Twitter user Basketeer Vendetta, under the account Vendetta92429, tweeted a photo of Trump supporters wearing campaign T-shirts and hats, adding: “Proud to be part of the #BasketOfDeplorables with my fellow Americans”.
Hillary Clinton backs down from blasting Trump supporters as his “basket of deplorables”. Hopefully this is not the way she will govern if elected, making a value judgment on literally millions of Americans that she hasn’t a clue about, but simply because they might disagree with her on a certain issue.
Trump has lamented the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute Clinton on criminal charges over her handling of classified emails while secretary of state.
Clinton had been speaking at an LGBT event when she said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
“Because she’s being so protected, 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, OK?” he said.
‘Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms, ‘ Mike Pence, the governor of in and Trump’s running mate, said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
Clinton’s comment could nevertheless end up being a boon to Trump.
During his speech Friday night in Pensacola, Trump strayed from prepared remarks to suggest that Clinton is so immune from prosecution she could get away with murder.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt-right leaders are with Trump”, Merrill said on Twitter.
Clinton then pivoted and tried to characterize the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need understanding and empathy. Bannon is the former publisher of the far right wing site Breitbart, which he proudly proclaimed is the home of the alt-right movement.
But the moment recalled comments about voters – also at private fundraisers – that have tripped up presidential nominees in the past.
Mike Pence said Saturday at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that Clinton’s comments should be “denounced in the strongest possible terms”.
Many observers believe that Mitt Romney’s off-hand remark that the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes will be automatic Obama votes cost him the 2012 election.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen. When she took the stage to introduce Barbra Streisand at the NY event, it was only the sixth time her pool of traveling reporters had been allowed into one of her over 330 finance events.
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Donald Trump told mourners at a funeral service for conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly that she promoted the idea that the “little person” can beat “the rigged system”.
