Hillary Clinton made it clear Saturday that there was one part of the comments she made at an LGBT fundraiser on Friday night that she regrets and that was qualifying the number of Trump supporters who were part of the “basket of deplorables”.
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“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, Clinton said to laughs. Let me just say, no one with a record of failure at home and overseas, no one with her avalanche of dishonesty and corruptions, and no one with that low opinion of the American people should ever be elected president of the United States of America. “He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric”. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”, Pence said, drawing cheers from the crowd at the annual Value Voters Summit in Washington.
Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the remark.
Deplorable comments by @HillaryClinton at her $250,000 fundraiser w/ elitists. “I regret saying ‘half” – that was wrong”, she said in a statement released by her campaign.
Hillary Clinton has claimed that half the supporters of her presidential rival Donald Trump belong in a “basket of deplorables” of racists, homophobes, sexists, xenophobes, and Islamophobes. “So just eliminate them from your thinking, because we’ve always had an annoying prejudicial element within our politics”. “It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from”. “Those are people we have to understand and empathise with, as well”.
Her comments immediately drew a reaction from the Trump camp, however, who labelled her speech as “deplorable” in its own right.
Mrs Clinton accepted that she had been “grossly generalistic”. But reporters traveling with her campaign were not allowed in and did not see her.
The rest of the Republican nominee’s supporters, according to Mrs Clinton, were “just desperate for change”. I campaign all across this country for Donald Trump. “His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly risky”. But the Democratic nominee did not back down from the criticism that white supremacists have flocked to Trump, and added that the Republican presidential nominee hired Steve Bannon to head his campaign.
Nick Merrill, Clinton’s campaign spokesman, wrote on Twitter that she was referring to the alt-right supporters.
Clinton has now issued a non-apology apology in response to the overwhelming backlash after her remarks.
The project, which combines opinion polls with an analysis of voting patterns, showed Clinton had an 83 percent chance of winning the presidential election by an average of 47 electoral votes in the Electoral College, a body of people who ultimately elect the president. Also, I don’t believe Clinton offended almost 47% of Americans, the way poor Mitt did.
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Mr Trump, a NY businessman who has never run for political office before, regularly says things that some consider insulting, racist or off-colour. “That may be one conversion therapy I’d endorse”, Clinton joked.
