Clinton’s comment could nevertheless end up being a boon to Trump.
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The rivals are neck and neck in the key battleground states of OH and Florida.
“As long as Trump stays out of the way and doesn’t overshadow Hillary’s comment, her “basket of deplorables” comment should dominate the media in the coming days and runs the risk of negatively defining her campaign”, said Republican strategist Doug Heye.
Unlike those noted gaffes, however, it is not clear how Mrs Clinton’s public remarks will directly damage her. “We will never stop calling out Trump’s bigotry and racist rhetoric, because we know our country is better than this”. They had started to move toward Mrs Clinton after the Democratic convention but are recently back up in the air or aligning with a third party.
Clinton was speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City Friday night when she described those supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”Pence said he had not heard “that level of disdain for America” since then-Sen”.
Hillary Clinton said Friday night in NY that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and/or Islamophobic.
Hillary Clinton said the 2016 presidential campaign is turning into reality TV and accused Donald Trump of not taking his White House bid seriously. “We want to win for jobs, we want to win for strong military and for the vets, we want to protect our Second Amendment but I want to win for the evangelicals because they have been so good to me”, Trump said. “What a awful thing she said about so many great Americans!” “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”.
On Saturday, Clinton’s staff said she attended another fundraiser at the Armonk, New York, home of attorney David Boies.
Speaking to reporters the morning after a NY security forum featuring separate appearances by the two candidates, Clinton also slammed the businessman for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and saying U.S. generals had been “reduced to rubble” by the policies of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly came to the defense of Matt Lauer amid harsh criticism he has been under for how he handled the presidential forum. “I regret saying ‘half” – that was wrong”.
The former first lady said the other half were people who felt left behind by the government and the economy.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager is objecting to Hillary Clinton’s depiction of half of his supporters as a “basket of deplorables”. Obama said that small-town voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”.
Mr Trump appears to be gaining ground.
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“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”, Pence said.
