"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. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”In other references to the "deplorables," Clinton had never assigned a proportion or a number. [Trump: Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment is the ‘single biggest mistake of the political season’]Still, it was the "half" that got Clinton into trouble. The Clinton campaign, with some difficulty, is asking for a debate about the substance of the quote. Among Trump supporters in particular, 60, 50, 70 percent of them agree with statements political scientists categorize as being explicitly racist."

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2016 16:19 UTC