Basket of deplorables
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"Basket of deplorables" is a pejorative phrase from a 2016 US presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising even
Trump supporter at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2018, wearing a hat with the phrase "Proud to be deplorable"
Hillary Clinton Portrait
The 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney officially began on June 2, 2011, when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney formally announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for
Basket of deplorables
…National Press Building from January 19 to 20, 2017. The day after Clinton's speech, some political analysts compared the statement to Mitt Romney's "47% gaffe" in 2012. Politico's Rich Lowry describes conservatives' interpretation of Clinton's use of the term as "an unfair, disparaging term for people who…
Romney speaks with patrons at a Senate Coney Island Restaurant in Livonia, Michigan, during a campaign stop, June 9, 2011.
Mitt Romney with Paul Ryan after introducing him as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election, in Norfolk, Virginia, on August 11, 2012.
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