Hillary Clinton said Friday night in NY that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and/or Islamophobic.
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“You know to just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the “basket of deplorables”.
“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.
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.
“The clear contrast here, is that Mr. Trump is running to be president for all Americans – black, white, Latino, men, women, everybody – and what we saw from Hillary Clinton last night is what she truly thinks about Americans and her actions, her words are what is truly deplorable here”, Miller declared. Trump’s interview surfaced as he and Clinton continue to clash over foreign policy in the run-up to the November 8 presidential election. “That’s a quarter of the American population, considering they’re nearly tied in polls right now”.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is stepping up her outreach to Republican voters with a new ad released Saturday highlighting GOP critics of Donald Trump.
Trump slammed the Democratic White House hopeful’s remarks as “insulting”, saying they will cost her at the polls in an early Saturday tweet. 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.
This is a developing story. A slight difference. Plus, Romney was talking about people who may have actually chosen to support him whereas Clinton was referring to people who in no way would vote for her.
That’s no small thing – even if she acknowledged she was being “grossly generalistic”.
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”.
Mrs Clinton said most Trump supporters are people who feel maligned by the political system.
She added that those people were deserving of understanding and empathy.
Her campaign says on Friday she will bring together experts on foreign policy and national security to talk about strategies for dealing with the threat of terrorism.
“I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, she went on, but she offered an olive branch of sorts to downscale Trump voters.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Clinton got caught and that her statement is divisive.
Mrs Clinton’s comments about her opponent’s supporters were made at an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) fundraiser in NY.
This also isn’t the first time that Clinton has linked Trump and his campaign to racist elements.
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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.
