Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Saturday she regretted calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorable” – a remark the billionaire Republican candidate slammed as her “worst mistake of the political season”.
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Huckabee took an unconventional approach to his criticism, composing a short poem. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said. “And, unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up”.
On the call, the Trump campaign and supporters declared Clinton’s comment reveals she is as an “elitist” who “actually looks down on all of us”.
Donald Trump has carved out a wider path to the Oval Office, as a number of states including Florida and OH are no longer considered likely wins for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released Saturday.
He added that millions of Americans support the Republican nominee because, “they are sick of corrupt career politicians like Hillary Clinton”.
She said she regrets only half of her statement, emphasizing that it is “really deplorable” that Trump is affiliated with people from the right-winged “alt-right movement”, and that “David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values”. “I think it will cost her at the polls!”
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”, Pence said.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz described Mrs Clinton’s comments as her “47 per cent moment”, a reference to when Republican candidate Mitt Romney said during a private fund-raiser in the 2012 campaign that “47 per cent” of voters would choose to return Barack Obama to the White House because they are dependent upon the government.
“Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”, Merrill said on Twitter.
“I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, she went on, but she offered an olive branch of sorts to downscale Trump voters.
Hillary Clinton speaks during he LGBT for Hillary Gala at Cipriani Club on September 9, 2016 in New York City. “She has given us an insight into an elitist attitude and what the elites think about normal every day, hard-working Americans who are sick and exhausted of what is going on in this country and they are ready for change”.
In a statement Saturday, a day after Clinton said she regards half of Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables”, Reince Priebus said Clinton is showing “her outright contempt for ordinary people”.
The head of the Republican National Committee is describing Hillary Clinton’s description of Donald Trump supporters as “insulting”.
“She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching, right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn’t be prosecuted”, he declared.
Many of Clinton’s fundraisers have been closed to the media, but not the one on Friday night.
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She described them as “people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change”. Obama said that 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”. The event drew a sold-out crowd of 1000, her campaign said.
