“The gentleman who stood up and said honestly, ‘You should be imprisoned for what you did.’ That was the tough one”, Trump said.
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The guidance also includes suggested comments – “only if asked” – on what to say about Clinton and her running mate, Sen.
Clinton’s campaign found itself explaining the remark after her speech, while Trump’s campaign attempted to capitalize on what it considered a major gaffe.
The Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project showed Clinton would still be the more likely victor if the election were held today, but that Trump had caught up to her level of support in several states, including the battleground states of Florida and Ohio.
And Trump himself tweeted out: “Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of wonderful, hard working people”.
9/11 Day, a nonprofit organization aiming to establish September 11 as a federally-recognized national day of service and remembrance, asked each of the principal presidential candidates – Clinton, Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein – to “suspend all campaign activity” to honor the day.
“How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?” “Hillary Clinton believes that millions of everyday Americans who think we can Make America Great Again are in her words ‘deplorable” and she described them as ‘irredeemable.’ I was speechless about that-I was speechless about it, really, in my speech. They are, Pence said, “hard-working Americans: Farms, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community”.
He was criticized for allegedly lobbing softball questions at Trump, while grilling Hillary Clinton on her use of a private email server, reported Business Insider’s Mark Abadi.
GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, released a statement Saturday saying Trump supporters “are not a basket of anything”. We are living in a volatile political environment.
While both were incendiary statements, there are differences in the circumstances – Romney was surreptitiously recorded by a bartender at a fundraiser that was closed to the media, while Clinton made her remarks in front of the press and had previously publicly described a segment of Trump’s supporters as “deplorables”.
According to average ticket prices and attendance figures provided by the campaign, Clinton raised around $6 million at the fundraiser, at which some attendees paid $50,000.
The flap also comes as polls show Trump narrowing Clinton’s lead nationally and in battleground states. “It’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage, ‘ bullied a Gold Star family due to their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American”.
She noted, however, that she “won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”.
In 2012, Trump defended Romney’s “47 percent” comments.
Shifting to the other half of Trump supporters, Clinton said many of those people feel like the government doesn’t care about them and who just want change in any form.
“I’m determined to bring our country together and make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top”, she said.
But Republican strategist Ana Navarro said that Clinton’s remark is still problematic.
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“She said, “Look, I’m generalizing here, but a lot of his support is coming from this odd place, that he’s given a platform to the alt-right and white nationalists, ‘” Kaine said in an interview with the Washington Post”.
