From The Hill: Hillary Clinton faces a major dilemma in the wake of her controversial “basket of deplorables” comment: keep hammering Donald Trump on race or pivot to other issues.
Democrats
are divided on the best course of action following her remark last week
that “half” of Trump’s supporters are “irredeemable” and fit into a
“basket of deplorables” that includes racists, sexists, xenophobes,
homophobes and Islamophobes. The former secretary of State subsequently
said she shouldn’t have spoken in such sweeping generalizations but
stopped short of apologizing and vowed to call out Trump’s “bigotry.”
But doing so could keep the deplorables comment in the news, and some Democrats feel like she should move on.
“I
think there’s a sense of disappointment that she went down in the mud
and stooped to Trump’s level,” one Clinton surrogate told The Hill. “So I
wouldn’t expect her to go down that road again.”
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