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. In her initial remarks Friday night at a private fundraiser in New York City, she said: “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”.
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In a statement backtracking somewhat on her remarks, Mrs Clinton said: “Last night I was “grossly generalistic, ‘ and that’s never a good idea”.
“Tonight’s comments were more than another example of Clinton lying to the country about her emails, jeopardizing our national security, or even calling citizens “super-predators” – this was Clinton, as a defender of Washington’s rigged system, telling the American public that she could care less about them”, he said. Fewer than half of Trump supporters say they are very enthusiastic about their candidate while fewer than a third of Clinton supporters are very enthusiastic about her. Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump. “I think the majority of folks are folks who feel locked out of opportunity and forgotten”. He said members of the extreme right, known as the “alt right”, were using Trump to advance a hate agenda.
“I was just seeing this morning there’s some press event in D.C. today by a white nationalist group that’s talking about how they’ve received a higher profile because of the Trump campaign”.
Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the remark, arguing that it revealed Clinton as disconnected from struggling Americans. “But let’s be clear, what’s really “deplorable” is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called “alt-right” movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values”.
“To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”, the presidential nominee said at a Democratic fundraiser in NY.
Clinton, meanwhile, is urging people who like the sound of Donald Trump’s boasts about defeating the Islamic State group to consider the difference between “real strength” and “phony strength”.
Some critics likened Clinton’s observation to 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment in which he said 47 percent of voters are dependent upon the government and would vote for President Barack Obama no matter what.
She was referring to Trump’s campaign chairman, Steve Bannon, who is also the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a conservative website. On Friday night, he told supporters in Pensacola, Florida, that Clinton could shoot someone and not be prosecuted. 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”.
Trump praised the media for pointing out that Bill Clinton said the same words, “make America great again”, while campaigning for president in the early 1990s.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, then-Sen. “A lot”, Trump said.
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The politicians on hand lined up in a row as the ceremony began, with Clinton at one end and Trump at the other. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.
