U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a LBGT for Hillary Gala at Cipriani in New York, New York, United States September 9, 2016.
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Mrs Clinton accepted that she had been “grossly generalistic”.
“So I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, Clinton said.
Pence said Clinton “low opinion” of the American people disqualified her from being elected president. There are what I call the deplorables-the racists, you know, the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he’s going to restore an America that no longer exists.
“As I said”, she added, “many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them”.
“She said, ‘Look, I’m generalizing here, but a lot of his support is coming from this odd place, that he’s given a platform to the alt-right and white nationalists, ‘” Kaine told the Washington Post.
David Corn at Mother Jones tried to make the case that Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton had had the “47 percent moment”.
The Democratic presidential candidate came under fire for remarks made at a NY fundraiser late Friday – remarks that unleashed a wave of derision and mockery on social media.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were off the presidential campaign trail Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but they attended the same memorial service at the World Trade Center complex in NY. “And for either one to say that means they’re getting a little too excited in their campaigning, but both of them are good people”.
Romney’s remarks likely hurt him with independent voters, but it’s unclear if Clinton’s “deplorable” gaffe will have such an impact.
Clinton has not let the media into many private fundraisers, but press was allowed in to hear her remarks Friday.
She was referring to Trump’s campaign chairman, Steve Bannon, who is also the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a conservative website.
But Trump’s vice presidential running mate Mike Pence said she had disrespected voters. Democrats defended Clinton: some said her math was accurate; others said she exaggerated to make an important point; still others said the flap was overblown.
Republicans take solace from the electorate’s thirst for change and say Mrs Clinton’s broadside about racism and extremism among Trump supporters will further motivate their voters. “Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”, said Clinton, who was the country’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term.
Start with this: A depressingly high percentage of Donald Trump’s supporters hold abhorrent beliefs, and it insults the intelligence to mince words about that. In Florida, he had suggested Clinton was so above the law she could shoot someone and get away with it, and said if Iranian sailors made inappropriate gestures at US ships during his presidency, they’d be “shot out of the water”.
Both Trump, a native New Yorker, and Clinton, who was senator from NY at the time of the attacks, have agreed to refrain from campaigning Sunday, continuing the tradition of setting aside partisan politics on the somber anniversary.
Trump is calling Clinton’s comments a “grotesque attack” and questioning how she can be president when “she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans”. The Trump campaign is using the flub to gee up its supporters. “And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd, when you observe the tone of his events”.
“The comments need to be dissected and put into context”, said Symone Sanders, a Democratic strategist and former spokeswoman for Clinton’s primary opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
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The remark drew immediate comparisons by some to when 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney said 47% of Americans would automatically vote for President Obama because they were dependent on government, and it wasn’t his job to worry about them.
