“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. And he has lifted them up.”By Saturday morning, #BasketofDeplorables was trending on Twitter as Mr. Trump’s campaign demanded an apology. The Democratic National Convention in July and a bus tour in Pennsylvania and Ohio laser-focused on kitchen-table issues seemed to help Mrs. Clinton. But Mrs. Clinton devoted much of August to fund-raising in the moneyed enclaves of the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard. At some of these events, which were closed to the press, she uses the “baskets” characterization of Trump voters.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2016 19:24 UTC