Clinton said on Friday evening that you could put half of the Republican presidential nominee’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables”, which she said would include racists, xenophobes, and homophobes.
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She said she was “grossly generalistic” in her remarks at the LGBT fundraiser in New York Friday and, she added, “that’s never a good idea”.
Her remarks at a fundraiser Friday night unleashed a fierce response from Republicans and Trump’s supporters on social media and threatened to distract from her efforts to paint Mr Trump as unqualified for the presidency. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy.
Trump himself tweeted: “Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of wonderful, hard working people”.
A survey from Quinnipiac University found Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by five points in Pennsylvania and four points in North Carolina, differing from an earlier poll released from the Tar Heel State showing Trump with a slim lead.
“She gave an entire speech about how the alt right movement is using his campaign to advance its hate movement”, Nick Merrill said.
“And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events”, he said.
Clinton’s comments were followed by a concert by Streisand, who performed a version of the Stephen Sondheim song “Send in the Clowns” that parodied the NY businessman. “And he has lifted them up”, she said.
One thing’s for sure; this election is not getting any friendlier, and we still have two months to go.
The comment was reminiscent of Trump’s January description of the loyalty of his supporters. There was even a mock account called “Hillary’s Basket”, with the handle @TheDeplorables, deriding the former first lady and U.S. senator.
“So let me just say from the bottom of my heart: Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”.
Trump and Hillary Clinton have clashed over national security for much of the week.
“So I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”.
Clinton made her remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday.
Clinton is still favored to win 17 states, including many with large, urban populations such as New York, New Jersey and California that heavily influence the outcome of the election.
Clinton then noted, as she has several times in the past, that Trump has “given voice” to white supremacist and anti-Semitic voices on the Internet.
Sarah Huckabee, daughter of former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, called the remarks “disqualifying”. Every campaign reporter in the country knows this.
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