The Democratic nominee had faced a backlash from Republicans following her comments at a fundraising event in NY on Friday, where 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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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.
They may take exception to Mrs Clinton’s calling fully half of all Trump supporters – millions of Americans – deplorable, which is why she has walked back this portion of her comments. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it.
Romney was recorded on video saying at a fundraiser that 47% of Americans would automatically vote for President Obama because they were dependent upon government and paid no taxes, and that his job was not to worry about them.
Though Clinton’s comment was incendiary and she apologized Saturday for making generalizations about so many of Trump’s supporters, it is different from Romney’s so-called 47% remark for several notable reasons.
She described the rest of his supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them.
Many Republicans are gleefully calling it Clinton’s “47 moment”, referring to Mitt Romney’s ill-advised comment during the 2012 campaign in which the GOP candidate disparaged almost half of the nation’s residents as Obama supporters because of government benefits.
“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans”, said Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, in a statement Friday night.
“Last night I was grossly generalistic”. “This is the man who hired Steve Bannon, a promoter of the racist “alt-right” movement, to be his campaign CEO, and has inspired white supremacists and conspiracy theorists like David Duke and Alex Jones”.
This is a developing story. She has made similar comments recently, including on an Israeli television station. “They say I have the most loyal people. where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
Clinton will begin Sunday morning at Ground Zero in Manhattan, participating in an annual moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. ET to mark the moment the first plane hit a World Trade Center tower.
The property tycoon and former Apprentice star was campaigning in Florida on the same day, where he said he would order an attack on Iranian boats if they harassed US Navy ships. A campaign spokesperson emphasized how many “alt-right” leaders support Trump for president and that their message comes through at his rallies.
Clinton then said some of these people were “irredeemable” and “not America”.
That’s a strong word, and that’s the word that Hillary Clinton used to describe half of Trump supporters.
Trump tweeted and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway demanded an apology from the Clinton campaign.
Donald Trump is within $50 million of Clinton’s current campaign total, despite delaying his fundraising efforts until the general election, and is now utilizing the Republican National Committee to wrangle in longtime donors.
“At the very least, if you know anyone who is thinking about voting for Trump, stage an intervention”, Clinton joked. While she has headlined more than 330 fundraisers as a candidate, her campaign has kept most of these events closed from reporters.
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Trump concluded his brief remarks speaking to Schlafly, saying, “we will never, ever let you down”.
