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The Trump campaign repeatedly used the phrase against Clinton during and after the 2016 presidential election. Many Trump supporters adopted the “deplorable” moniker for themselves in reappropriation. Some journalists and political analysts questioned whether this incident played a role in the election’s outcome. Throughout her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton expressed her concerns regarding Donald Trump and his supporters. During campaign fundraisers in August 2016, Clinton reportedly explained her divide and conquer approach to courting Republican voters by putting Trump supporters into two “baskets”: everyday Republicans whom she would target and the alt-right crowd. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. The following day Clinton expressed regret for “saying half”, while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified “hateful views and voices”. On October 20, 2016, during the 71st Alfred E.
Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Clinton joked about the phrase, telling the guests: “I just want to put you all in a basket of adorables”. Clinton’s campaign pointed to a series of polls that showed that some of Trump’s supporters held negative views toward Latinos, African Americans, and Muslims. Donald Trump criticized Clinton’s remark as insulting his supporters. Others in Trump’s campaign responded negatively to the statement. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence stated in a Capitol Hill meeting: “For Hillary Clinton to express such disdain for millions of Americans is one more reason that disqualifies her to serve in the highest office. Meanwhile, Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. In the final months of the election, the Trump campaign released official merchandise with the word “deplorable”.
During and after the election, the “deplorables” nickname was reappropriated by many Trump supporters. Weeks before Trump’s inauguration, various celebrations were held using word “deplorable”. After the election, Diane Hessan, who had been hired by the Clinton campaign to track undecided voters, wrote in The Boston Globe that “all hell broke loose” after the “basket of deplorables” comment, which prompted what she saw as the largest shift of undecided voters towards Trump. In an interview with CNN on December 4, 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said that the statement “definitely could have alienated” her voters. In her 2017 book What Happened, Clinton said that her comments on the “basket of deplorables” were a factor in her electoral loss.
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