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Clinton's 'Deplorables' Comment Show Disdain for Working People, Trump Camp Says



Hillary Clinton's comments at a star-studded fundraiser in New York City that half of Donald Trump's supporters are a "basket of deplorables" are getting slammed by the Trump campaign as a sign of "how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America."

GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence told a forum of social conservatives Saturday that Clinton's comments display a lack of respect for the millions of people who support Donald Trump for president.

Trump's supporters "are not a 'basket' of anything," Pence said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

"The truth of the matter is that the men and women who support Donald Trump's campaign are hard-working Americans, farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community, members of every class of this country who know that we can make America great again," he said.

"They are Americans and they deserve your respect," Pence added, as if addressing Clinton directly.

Trump himself wrote on Twitter on Saturday that Clinton "was so insulting to my supporters" and that her comments "will cost her at the polls."

The Trump campaign's senior communication adviser, Jason Miller, said Clinton's remarks told "the American public that she could care less about them."

"Tonight’s comments were more than another example of Clinton lying to the country about her emails, jeopardizing our national security, or even calling citizens 'super-predators,'" Miller said in a statement late Friday. "This was Clinton, as a defender of Washington’s rigged system – telling the American public that she could care less about them."

Milled added, "What’s truly deplorable isn’t just that Hillary Clinton made an inexcusable mistake in front of wealthy donors and reporters happened to be around to catch it, it’s that Clinton revealed just how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America."

Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway slammed Clinton on Twitter for "placing people in 'baskets'" and insulting "millions of Americans."

Clinton made the comment Friday night 9/9 at the LGBT For Hillary Gala.