“If you know anybody who’s even thinking about voting for Trump, stage an intervention”, she told the crowd, after mentioning her opposition to gay-conversion therapy, Persuading people not to vote for Trump “may be one conversion therapy I endorse”, Clinton said. “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”.
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She argued that through his combative rhetoric, Trump has enabled those people’s voices to be amplified.
Some of those were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America. “If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”
“Last night I was “grossly generalistic, ‘ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half” – that was wrong”, she said.
This is a developing story.
Trump spoke at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Saturday, where he said that Schlafly is looking down on those gathered, telling them to “keep up the fight”. Trump supporters are “more likely to describe African Americans as “criminal, ‘ “unintelligent, ‘ ‘lazy” and ‘violent” than voters who backed some Republican rivals in the primaries or who support Democratic contender Hillary Clinton”, the Reuters poll found.
Earlier Monday, Clinton took steps to seemingly answer more press questions, by including her traveling press corps on the same plane on which she flies.
A new Hillary Clinton ad is turning to Republicans to make the case that Donald Trump is unfit for the Oval Office. He said such comments by anyone, including Clinton, mean that such a person “who has that low an opinion of millions of Americans should never be elected president of the United States”, meaning that this adds to the list of things that already disqualify Clinton from the presidency.
Trump’s latest comments come as his campaign has tried to temper his public comments, to somewhat mixed-results.
But Trump yesterday sought to use Clinton’s comments to make the same charge about her.
Republican strategist Ana Navarro, who has been highly critical of Trump, said Clinton might have crossed an important line.
Her comments were rebuked by Mr Trump’s team, with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway saying the comments were “slander” and had insulted to millions of Americans.
Many observers believe that Mitt Romney’s off-hand remark that the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes will be automatic Obama votes cost him the 2012 election.
Clinton apologized Saturday for being “grossly generalistic”.
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Seeking to explain the statements, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a series of tweets after the remarks that Clinton has been talking about the “alternative right”, or “alt-right” movement, which often is associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”.
