Clinton: half of Trump supporters belong in “basket of deplorables”

Kaine is a devout Roman Catholic as well as a USA senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state.

On Sunday the candidates were expected to put their campaigns on pause as they marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks by attending the official commemoration in NY at the World Trade Center site.

Hillary Clinton is also expected to visit Ground Zero on Sunday.

Trump added that Clinton was showing “bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans”, arguing that she was “incapable to serve as President of the United States”.

Clinton, who has said she is the candidate who can 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. Last month, she delivered a major speech in which she accused Trump of aligning himself with far-right extremists and saying he “built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia”.

Trump is calling Clinton’s comments a “grotesque attack” and questioning how she can be president when “she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans”.

Trump noted that Schlafly rooted for the underdog, and “the idea that so-called little people, or the little person that she loved so much, could beat the system – often times, the rigged system”. “At the very least, if you know anybody who’s even thinking of voting for Trump, stage an intervention”, Clinton said. Just remember: “friends don’t let friends vote for Trump”.

“One day after promising to be aspirational & uplifting, Hillary insults millions of Americans”.

The other basket of Trump’s supporters constituted individuals desperate for change who felt let down by the government and the economy, Clinton added.

On Saturday, Clinton’s staff said she attended another fundraiser at the Armonk, New York, home of attorney David Boies. “They say I have the most loyal people. where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”

“Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of incredible, hard-working people”.

“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”, Clinton said.

Clinton’s comments amount to startlingly blunt talk for a candidate that is usually measured in her assessment of the Republican nominee.

Clinton has not let the media into many private fundraisers, but press was allowed in to hear her remarks Friday.

Mike Pence said Saturday at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that Clinton’s comments should be “denounced in the strongest possible terms”.

Clinton made her comments at an LGBT fundraiser in NY late Friday, adding that Trump supporters are “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”.

Schlafly died Monday at age 92.

Hillary Clinton has verbally banished half of Donald Trump’s backers to a “basket of deplorables”, and the Republican presidential nominee is quickly pouncing.

At the NY restaurant Friday night, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying that “unfortunately there are people like that”. At a fundraiser on Friday, Hillary lashed out not just at Trump, but at his supporters – half of them, anyway. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”.