“I regret saying ‘half” – that was wrong”, Clinton said in a statement, only partially walking back her argument that the Republican nominee has many followers who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic”.
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“Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms”, Mike Pence, the governor of in and Trump’s running mate, said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
At Friday night’s fundraiser, Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behaviour as a candidate for the White House in the November 8 election.
Clinton is seeking to keep the focus on Trump’s recent performance at a forum Wednesday night where he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a stronger leader than President Obama.
Mr Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, said: “They are not a basket of anything”.
“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. In a July speech in Springfield, Illinois, Clinton said the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln has been transformed into “the party of Trump”, and she called it “not just a huge loss for our democracy – it is a threat to it” because her rival’s campaign “adds up to an ugly, unsafe message to America”. “They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end”, she said at the gala.
Passions are high just over two weeks before the first election debate between Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump on 26 September.
Clinton also repeated her comment that many of Trump’s supporters deserve empathy. She pretty much stood by everything else.
Miller continued, “And what’s truly deplorable isn’t just that Hillary Clinton made an inexcusable mistake in front of wealthy donors and reporters happened to be around to catch it, it’s that Clinton revealed just how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America”.
Speaking at an evening fundraiser in NY, the former U.S. secretary of state said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric from such individuals through his behaviour as a candidate for the White House.
Meanwhile, Trump’s camp lost no time in making the most of the attention on Clinton’s comments.
And Trump himself tweeted: “Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of awesome, hard working people”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized USA policy in Iraq again, but this time he aired his grievances on an unusual platform: a Russian government-funded television network.
The Democratic presidential nominee spelled out her security plans, including how she would bolster defenses against domestic terror attacks, before she turned to attacking her GOP rival in an appearance before reporters in NY.
Comments about voters – especially at private fundraisers – have tripped up presidential hopefuls in the past.
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Some critics likened Clinton’s observation to 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment in which he said 47 percent of voters are dependent upon the government and would vote for President Barack Obama no matter what. Those remarks were seized on by Clinton, his primary opponent, as evidence that he was disconnected from many Americans.
