WASHINGTON—The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
1:11 p.m.
Donald Trump is criticizing Hillary Clinton for suggesting that half of his supporters belonged in “a basket of deplorables.”
Trump, speaking Monday in Baltimore, said he was “deeply shocked and alarmed to hear my opponent attack, slander, smear and demean” his supporters.
The Republican nominee was speaking at the annual National Guard Association convention and suggested that Clinton was attacking those in uniform, whether in the military or law enforcement.
He says of Clinton, “She called them every vile name in the book.”
Clinton has said she regrets using the term, “half,” to describe the proportion of Trump supporters she considers “deplorables.” But she didn’t back down from describing his campaign as largely built on prejudice and paranoia.
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9:25 a.m.
Trump, meanwhile, came out with a new ad highlighting rival Hillary Clinton’s comments saying half of his supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables.”
The ad features footage of Clinton speaking at a Friday fundraiser, where she described the “deplorables” as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic---you name it.”
A narrator says in the video: “You know what’s deplorable? Hillary Clinton viciously demonizing hard-working people like you.”
