Trump campaign responds to Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comment

Donald Trump is planning to mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks by attending the official commemoration at ground zero. “It’s well past time the press stopped grading Trump on a curve”.

Both Trump, a native New Yorker, and Clinton, who was senator from NY at the time of the attacks, have agreed to refrain from campaigning Sunday, continuing the tradition of setting aside partisan politics on the somber anniversary.

As far as I can tell, none of the Trump campaign pushback to Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comments have said anything about the people Clinton was talking about not being racist, not being misogynist or by whatever definition not being ‘haters.’ It’s not referenced once. Trump said in a tweet.

Clinton took back her remarks, saying Trump’s supporters are “Hard-Working Americans”, and her remarks were “grossly generalistic”.

“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”, Heye said.

He also accused Mrs Clinton of lacking the temperament to be commander in chief, telling supporters: “Personally, I think she’s an unstable person”.

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”.

The Republican nominee said Schlafly was “there for me when it was not at all fashionable”.

Trump concluded his brief remarks speaking to Schlafly, saying, “we will never, ever let you down”.

Trump is expected to speak at the Catholic service for Schlafly, who died Monday at the age of 92.

Hillary Clinton says she regrets describing half of Donald Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”.

Clinton, 68, also told the crowd at the “LGBT for Hillary” gala that other Trump supporters are people who feel let down by the government and the economy, and are “desperate for change”. Clinton said “I regret saying “half” – that was wrong”.

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

Shortly after Clinton issued a statement on the matter Saturday, Kaine, a senator from Virginia, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he didn’t see a need for her to apologize. She then pivoted and tried to characterize the other half of Trump’s supporters, putting them in “that other basket” and saying they need understanding and empathy.

In a statement given to Bloomberg on Saturday, Trump said Clinton’s attempt to partially walk back the remark was disgraceful.

Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms.

Some of those people were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America.

“This is not conservatism as we have known it… these are racist ideas, race-baiting ideas”, she said in August, name-checking the alt-right as “the paranoid fringe”.

Pence said, “the men and women who support Donald Trump’s campaign are hard-working Americans: Farms, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community”.

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.