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Did Hillary Clinton just make her own "47 percent" gaffe?

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Hillary Clinton said Friday night in New York that half of Donald Trump's supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and/or Islamophobic. At an "LGBT for Hillary" fundraiser, where Barbra Streisand performed, Clinton expanded on previous comments about many Trump supporters falling into a "basket of deplorables" that includes the groups listed above. The difference this time was that she put a number on it. And it wasn't a small number. "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables.' Right?” Clinton said, “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it."

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