This time, he bent a criticism that’s been aimed at him back onto her. And it wasn’t a small number.
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Hillary Clinton didn’t mince words during a star-studded fundraiser in New York City Friday night, describing some Donald Trump supporters as “deplorables” who are hateful and bigoted.
“I’m not interested in giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”, Clinton said. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it”.
Republicans instantly cried foul.
Trump’s donation came days after Bondi’s office said it was weighing an investigation into allegations of fraud against the scandal-ridden Trump University.
Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the remark.
“She is being so protected”, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said to a crowd of more than 10,000 at an evening rally here.
In a recent speech Clinton tried to tie her GOP rival in with the so-called alt-right movement, a loose fringe group that exists largely online and often appeals to anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and white nationalist individuals.
Polls released earlier this week suggest Mr Trump is gaining on Mrs Clinton, and the rivals are neck-and-neck in the key battleground states of OH and Florida.
But how similar at they?
“They are American and they deserve our respect”.
Clinton’s remarks were quickly compared to Mitt Romney’s infamous “47-percent” gaffe from his 2012 campaign, when he was secretly recorded during a fundraiser saying almost half of Americans “depend on the government” and will vote for Obama. He added: “I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives”.
It was her very own “47 percent” moment, but way, way worse.
But she then went on to list a number of “deplorable” things about Trump. But she still was generalizing a large segment of the American people.
Clinton’s comments drew a rebuke from Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who said on Twitter that Clinton had insulted millions of Americans.
One key difference between the two is that Romney’s comment might have alienated potential supporters.
Half think black people are more violent than white people.
Johnson warned failure to do so could result in more bullying against voters.
When we wake up on November 9, wondering whether Mr. Trump will wear the fake tan to his inauguration, remember that Clinton, like Marie and one at before her, said that from the perspective of the elite, The people can eat cake if they have no bread. The coal comments were made just a few months after she proposed a $30 billion investment to retrain coal workers to work in the renewable energy sector. She had called Trump supporters racists and sexists and homophobes before; she just hadn’t put a number on it. Same argument, all the way down to “grossly generalistic”.
While Clinton was greeted with laugher and applause at the event, which featured a performance by Barbra Streisand, Republicans saw an opportunity to stir up more resentment towards Clinton. His comments there didn’t feed into a broader point he was pushing about Obama supporters being moochers addicted to government largesse.
But Clinton might’ve crossed an important line here: She’s not just calling out her opponent anymore.
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“Hillary’s kind ‘ smart, that’s clear”, she said. But reporters traveling with her campaign were not allowed in and did not see her.
