Hillary Clinton regrets calling Trump supporters ‘deplorable’

“Just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables“, Clinton said.

Clinton made her comments at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday, then walked them back Saturday, saying in a statement that it was “grossly generalistic, and that’s never a good idea”.

Hillary Clinton talks about half of the supporters of Donald Trump – they’re “racists… xenophobic…”

Polls narrow as Election Day nears, and the Clinton Campaign is struggled to overcome controversy about how she handled classified information while serving as Barack Hussein Obama’s Secretary of State.

Pence piled on, saying at the Values Voter Summit that Clinton’s “low opinion” of Trump’s supporters should be “denounced in the strongest possible terms”.

Also Trump’s comments about the esteem of American military commanders can be interpreted as insulting to those leaders in uniform who have spent their life in service for the country, he said, referring to some of Trump’s comments Wednesday night that could be interpreted as insulting toward US military brass. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”, Pence said.

After the Trump campaign called on Clinton to apologize, she softened her comments, but did not fully back down from the remarks.

It could prove a stumble for a seasoned – and polarizing – politician who wants to lead a country that includes many who have embraced Trump’s exhortations to “lock her up”. That recalled a gaffe made by Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee at the time.

But Clinton’s campaign found itself explaining the remark after her speech.

Trump attended the same memorial service at ground zero, along with New York’s Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand.

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”.

The comment was reminiscent of Trump’s January description of the loyalty of his supporters.

Her comments might serve to rile them up and make them more passionate about voting and helping Trump, but they weren’t going to vote for Clinton anyway.

This year’s September 11 anniversary falls during a pitched presidential campaign and politics hovered even though both candidates pledged to suspend political activities out of respect for the victims, first responders and their families.

With less than sixty days until the election, neither Clinton nor Donald Trump has allowed for what’s known as a “protective pool”, a rotating group of reporters that travel with a candidate in order to provide a minute-to-minute account of their activities. When she took the stage to introduce Barbra Streisand at the NY event, it was only the sixth time her pool of traveling reporters had been allowed into one of her over 330 finance events.

Since the Commander-In-Chief forum, McMullin has been even more critical about the constant praise Trump offers Putin, pointing out how unfortunate it is that we, as a country, have to debate on whether or not it’s a good thing that a major party candidate is so fond of Putin.

Clinton’s comments drew a rebuke from Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager of the Republican nominee, who said in a message on social media network Twitter that Clinton had insulted millions of Americans.

The race up until now has been one mostly built around trading punches, with each candidate trying to make the contest a referendum about the other candidate in recent weeks, highlighting each others’ perceived missteps and making the case that the opponent would be a disaster for the United States.

Clinton has made similar comments in the past. Clinton stressed the rest of Trump’s supporters feel let down by the government and economy.