Hillary Clinton has said she regrets describing “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorable”, but vowed that she would keep “calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric” when she encounters it from her presidential rival and his followers.
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So Hillary Clinton was right to identify a significant contingent of Trump’s supporters as, she put it, falling into a “basket of deplorables” (even as she said the rest have legitimate grievances that must be heard).
Speaking at the LGBT for Hillary Gala in New York City on September 9, 2016, Clinton said that Trump’s supporters were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic”.
“I think we can all agree that if Donald Trump said something controversial about Clinton supporters, it wouldn’t have been in his top 10 list of offensive statements in day”, the advice reads, the Post reports.
‘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. Adding that Trump had “given voice” to many of those elements through his campaign rhetoric and retweets, she continued that, “some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”.
“Last night I was “grossly generalistic, ‘ and that’s never a good idea”, Clinton said in her statement”. With her statement she’s saying that no, she doesn’t actually believe that around 20 percent of Americans are part of “a basket of deplorables”.
At the NY event with with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) supporters, she said that she grouped Mr. Trump’s sexist, racist and homophobic supporters in a “basket of deplorables”.
Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee, said Mrs Clinton had shown “her outright contempt for ordinary people”.
Mr. Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the remark.
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”, Pence said. Romney had said 47% of Americans on government dole supported Obama.
The comments have caused an uproar and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has slammed her for the remarks. “Because we really are ‘stronger together'”. Instead, she sought to refocus on what she described as episodes of “deplorable” behaviour by Trump and his campaign.
Clinton made her remarks about Trump’s supporters at a lavish event that featured performances from Barbra Streisand and Rufus Wainwright. When she took the stage to introduce Barbra Streisand at the NY event, it was only the sixth time her pool of traveling reporters had been allowed into one of her over 330 finance events.
Clinton made her remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday.
Bakari Sellers, a Clinton surrogate and CNN contributor, was defiant when asked about the remark, suggesting that it didn’t matter if Clinton referred to half or merely some of Trump’s supporters as “deplorables”.
After one of the most bitterly fought election campaigns in living memory, Americans go to the polls on 8 November to elect a successor to President Barack Obama.
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything”, Pence said.
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Clinton – who’s said she’s the candidate to unify a divided country- made the comment at an LGBT fundraiser Friday night at a New York City restaurant, with about 1,000 people in attendance.
