“Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it”.
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On Saturday Trump’s supporters fired back on social media.
During a Friday night fundraiser in NY, the Democratic presidential nominee said that “half” of Trump’s supporters can be placed in a “basket of deplorables“, meaning that they are racist, homophobic or xenophobic.
Trump’s statement came after Clinton had backed off her disdainful description of half of his supporters. She then lambasted Trump for hiring a leader of the so-called “alt-right” movement to run his campaign, and offered a list of Trump’s offensive remarks about Latinos and African Americans.
Shortly after Clinton issued a statement on the matter Saturday, Kaine, a senator from Virginia, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he didn’t see a need for her to apologize. “And he has lifted them up”. At a fundraiser on Friday, Hillary lashed out not just at Trump, but at his supporters – half of them, anyway.
“Those are people we have to understand and empathise with as well”, she said.
At Friday night’s fundraiser, Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behavior as a candidate for the White House in the November 8 election.
Speaking to gay rights supporters, she added that those people are “irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”.
The other basket of Trump’s supporters constituted individuals desperate for change who felt let down by the government and the economy, Clinton added.
Mike Pence said Saturday at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that Clinton’s comments should be “denounced in the strongest possible terms”. “They are Americans, and they deserve your respect”. “I think it will cost her at the Polls!”
She specified that she believes the word “deplorable” was reasonable to describe much of Trump’s campaign. The Post argues the only thing Clinton’s comment could do is make some Trump supporters take a hard look at some of their fellows and come away less enthusiastic about their candidate.
“Because she’s being so protected, 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, okay?” he said.
Hillary Clinton has verbally banished half of Donald Trump’s backers to a “basket of deplorables”, and the Republican presidential nominee is quickly pouncing.
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The guidance also includes suggested comments – “only if asked” – on what to say about Clinton and her running mate, Sen.
