In the remarks, at a New York fundraiser featuring Barbra Streisand, Clinton went further than she ever had in the past in suggesting that potentially half of Trump’s supporters were bigoted. She previously said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 “that you could put Trump’s supporters in two big baskets. This has long been fodder for attack for Clinton who, in an August speech in Reno, Nevada, railed against Trump as “a man with a long history of racial discrimination”. However, Clinton had never tried to tie Trump’s voters to the Republican nominee, insisting in the Reno speech “this is not conservatism as we have known it. “Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans,” said Miller.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2016 05:53 UTC