“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” she said. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that.” She added that they were “irredeemable.” The reaction to her remarks, so starkly at odds with her “Stronger Together” slogan, was swift and severe. That night, conservatives began using #basketofdeplorables to rally critics of Hillary, and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said at a conference in Washington the next day
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