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Establishment? @RonDeSantis goes off: “I’ve been fighting the Republican establishment my whole career.”

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper returned to his scorched-earth approach to former President Trump that has largely been absent since the 2022 ousting of the network's anti-Trump president Jeff Zucker. Cooper began his opening monologue on Thursday following CNN's town hall with Trump the night before by addressing his audience's reaction to the "disturbing" event without once saying the former president's name. "Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer...

Former vice president Joe Biden held a campaign rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, and he referenced supporters of President Donald Trump protesting outside the event, calling them “chumps.” Biden was speaking about the coronavirus, and talked about how Trump separates out red states and blue states when discussing how well the response is being handled. “By the way, we don’t do things like those chumps out there with the microphone are doing, the Trump guys,” said Biden. “Look, we’ve got to come together.”

President Obama lit into Donald Trump and his Republican defenders Friday, attacking him for his authoritarian streak, creepy sexist comments and alleged sexual assaults. "You don't have to be a husband or a father to know that that kind of language, those kinds of thoughts, those kinds of actions are unacceptable, they're not right. You just have to be a decent human being," Obama said, mocking Republicans who have finally thrown Trump under the bus for "political expedience" following his comments that his fame let him sexually assault women - and subsequent claims from more than a half-dozen women that...

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign issued a explainer condemning a cartoon frog meme for allegedly being a symbol of white supremacy. The “Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists” explainer includes an image shared by Republican presidential Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., referencing Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” statement:

"Hillary Clinton calls 10s of millions of Americans deplorable. You could put half of Trump supporters in a basket of deplorables. They are racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it...." A 30 second political ad that hammers Hillary with her own words.

(CNN) — It is deplorable to undermine the credibility of a federal judge based on his Mexican heritage. It is deplorable to demean a Gold Star family and propose to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. It is deplorable for a candidate for president of a major party to kick off his campaign by labeling most Mexicans as rapists and murderers. It is deplorable when the Justice Department feels it has to sue you a second time for racial discrimination because you didn't get the hint the first time.

It seems like #BasketOfDeplorables has stopped trending on Twitter. That's unfortunate. The American people need to be reminded how deplorable the Clintons are. So I came to thinking. There's no one who would be better suited to enlighten America on how scummy Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife and her alleged rapist husband is than Freepers. So, I propose that we go and do a good, ole fashioned FReeping, 2016 style, folks to both raise awareness for the website chock full 'o #BasketOfDeplorables f/k/a the "vast right wing conspiracy" and to remind America how corrupt both Clintons are. If you're in, use...

But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from America: Rather proclaim it, Ryan, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And filthy dollars for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the Election: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And...

Nothing says woman of the people like a political candidate who got filthy rich while serving in the Senate and State Department insulting millions of voters while surrounded by celebrities, right? Hillary Clinton shifted her attack from Donald Trump to his supporters at a fundraiser in New York City, putting “half” of them into “a basket of deplorables.” That’s a memorable turn of phrase, but will Hillary want to forget it?(VIDEO-AT-LINK) Hillary Clinton didn’t mince words during a star-studded fundraiser in New York City Friday night, describing some Donald Trump supporters as “deplorables” who are hateful and bigoted. “To just...

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and Jason Miller, Trump’s Senior Communications Advisor, defended Trump’s supporters from an attack on them Friday night by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at an elite New York City fundraiser headlined by Barbra Streisand that raised a reported $6 million. Clinton called Trump supporters, a “basket of deplorables”, “irredeemable” and “not America” among many slurs she hurled against half the country. Clinton also said they were so desperate for change they don’t care where help comes from. Conway spoke out Twitter while Miller issued a formal statement through the campaign....

Okay, saw the ridiculous Clinton comments and the responses here so I came up with an idea. Take a page from the Ice Bucket challenge. Get a brief film clip together. It should contain something like "Hi, my name is ____. I'm a college grad majoring in Economics and I'm supporting Donald Trump for President. That makes me a likely deplorable American to Hillary Clinton. I take pride in being disdained by her and her supporters. I will take even greater pride in relegating her to the dustbin of history on November 8th. I'm ____ and I didn't need anyone's...

On September 9th, at a Democrat fundraiser in New York City, Hillary Clinton labeled half of Donald Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables" made up of "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" people. Many opinion and news commenters have called it Hillary's "47% Moment", likening her comments to Mitt Romney's comment that 47% of the population would never vote for him. They express distaste for her comments and reject her premises and conclusion. I would like to take a different tack: I feel we should embrace her comments, and wear them with pride. The German Kaiser Wilhem II called the...

Donald Trump's campaign manager is objecting to Hillary Clinton's depiction of half of his supporters as a "basket of deplorables." Clinton was speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City Friday night when she described those supporters as "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it." But she stressed that the rest of the Republican nominee's supporters are people who feel let down by the government and the economy and are "just desperate for change," and said those people need sympathy. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway quickly responded on Twitter, writing, "One day after promising to be aspirational...

Hillary Clinton urged supporters late Friday not to be complacent about Donald Trump's chances of winning the election, saying half of his backers were "desperate for change" but the other half belonged in a "basket of deplorables." Appearing at an LGBT gala fundraiser where Barbra Streisand performed, Clinton said many of the GOP candidate's voters were "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." Trump earlier told a crowd in Florida that Clinton could "shoot somebody" and not be prosecuted —an attack that echoed a boast the businessman once made about himself. Image: Hillary Clinton, Laverne Cox Hillary Clinton was...

If you support Donald Trump, you are “irredeemable,” part of a “basket of deplorables.” A “kind” who should never be allowed to rise again. You are a “radical fringe” made up of “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobic,” “Islamophobic,” “anti-Semitic,” “misogynist,” “xenophobic,” “you name it” types. Hillary Clinton paints you as hopeless moral lepers who should be banished to a remote island to live our final days. We are so bad, so evil, that we are no better than “terrorists.” We are “not America.” We are all of these things (and more) according to Hillary Clinton. And anyone who thinks the language she...

Following the announcement from Bill Clinton that large segments of the American  electorate are “coal people“, you know ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ – in the ‘US’ -vs- ‘THEM’ world, those simpletons, too uneducated to properly evaluate the magnanimous magnificence of the Clinton family, Hillary jumps into the foray with her own specific ridicule. Secretary Hillary Clinton telling her donors at a fundraising dinner that Donald Trump supporters are “deplorable”. Watch: Hillary Clinton: Half Of Trump's Supporters 'Racist, Sexist, Homophobic'... (9/9/2016) It’s the same condescending framework she used earlier in the day when granting an interview with an Israeli News Outlet: The “deplorable American’s” remark is at 02:00 below: 9/8/2016...

It's as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania. It's not just visual: In interview after interview in all corners of the state, I've found that Trump's support across the ideological spectrum remains strong. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who have not voted in presidential elections for years — they have not wavered in their support. Two components of these voters' answers and profiles remain consistent: They are middle-class, and they do not live in a big city. They are suburban to rural and...

I get the impression that Hillary was talking about the same people Barry was in 2008 when he made this condescending comment about people in flyover country:  "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Only she kicked it up a notch: from condescending to flat out insulting. "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said to laughter from the "LGBT for...

This week could be the point of no return for the faltering Clinton campaign. The elitism that is a defining characteristic of the contemporary political establishment has lured the Clinton campaign into a strategic blunder. They are in a panic with Trump closing the polling gap in battleground states. So as panicked people sometimes do, the Brooklyn Brain Trust made a decision from the gut. They are scared of the Trump supporters, and they presume that their voters are too. So scared that it makes sense to them for Bill and Hillary Clinton to publicly disparage a substantial fraction of...