Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton: Clinton calls half of Trump supporters ‘deplorables’

Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton: Clinton calls half of Trump supporters ‘deplorables’

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US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables”.

Speaking at a fundraiser, she said they were “racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it”.

She then went on to say the remaining Republican nominee’s supporters were “simply desperate for change”.

Mr Trump’s campaign manager said Mrs Clinton had dissed “millions of Americans”, with her opinions.

Surveys released earlier this week suggest Mr Trump is gaining on Mrs Clinton, and the rivals are neck-and-neck in the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio.

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Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence has released his tax returns, putting pressure to do the same

The Clinton Presidential Library has released photographs of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump from 2000 – when the families were on much friendlier terms

Mrs Clinton’s remarks about her opponent’s assistants were made at an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) fundraiser in Nyc.

“To merely be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s assistants into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables’. Regrettably there are people that way, and he’s lifted them up,” she said.

But she said the other half of his supporters were people who were desperate and felt let down by the economy and authorities.

“They do not purchase everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. Those are people we need to understand and empathise with as well.”

Singer Barbara Streisand performed with a variant of Stephen Sondheim’s tune Send in the Clowns, at the fundraiser, parodying Mr Trump.

  • Clinton Says Half Of Trump Supporters Are In The “Basket Of Deplorables”. I say, “At least half of Clinton’s supporter are deportables.