GOP ticket quick to deplore Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment

But she argued that the word “deplorable” was reasonable to describe much of Trump’s campaign.

Trump had said if Mr. Putin says great things about him, he’s going to return the praise.

Some of Trump’s foreign policy positions, such as his proposal to fight terrorism by imposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, have alarmed not just Democrats but many in his own party’s leadership.

The Republican nominee said Schlafly was “there for me when it was not at all fashionable”. “If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil”.

Trump, meanwhile, did not address Clinton’s comment at his only scheduled public appearance on Saturday, a funeral in St. Louis for social conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has frequently broken with Trump, took a sharply different view of Putin. “They speak plainly about the failings of the administrations of their time, but they also, I think they both give voice to the aspirations of the American people, that we can be better, we can bet stronger”.

At the NY restaurant Friday night, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying that “unfortunately there are people like that. I regret saying “half” – that was wrong”.

It might not be intentional, but there appears to be an arms race between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to see who can gather more endorsements from military officials.

Thanks to President Obama and Hillary Clinton, “the generals have been reduced to rubble”, he said. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect”.

In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them.

The former secretary of state also repeated “it was a mistake” to have used a personal email account while leading the department, and that she would “certainly not do it again”.

Clinton’s lead has largely vanished despite a hard month for Trump, which saw an overhaul of his campaign staff, criticism of his campaign strategy and announcements of support for Clinton from several high-profile Republicans.

Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, also chimed in, with remarks at the Values Voter conference in Washington.

“Eighty-eight generals and admirals endorsed me today”, Trump said.

There are, in fact, laws governing countries’ actions at war.

“I want to keep the court system within the military”.

Schlafly died Monday at age 92.

“It is a correct tweet”.

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

The soon-to-be-president’s campaign alone raised $153 million in September 2008, more than in the previous two months combined.

Clinton’s comments drew a rebuke from Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who said on Twitter that Clinton had insulted millions of Americans.

In her initial remarks Friday night at a private fundraiser in New York City, she said: “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”.

Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill took to Twitter to perform danage control saying she was only referring to attendees at Trump rallies, not all of his supporters.