Hillary Clinton says there's no place for Donald Trump's 'prejudice and paranoia'
After being asked during the Univision Democratic debate if Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is a racist, Hillary Clinton called his remarks on Mexicans and women "un-American."
"I was the first one to call him out when he called Mexicans rapists, engaging in rhetoric I found deeply offensive," she said. "I said basta, and I am pleased that others are also joining in making clear that his rhetoric, his demagoguery, his trafficking in prejudice and paranoia, has no place in our political system, especially from someone running for president who couldn't decide whether to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke." Clinton said people can "draw their own conclusions" about Trump, adding, "you don't make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great."
Trump's comments are "un-American," she continued, and what he has "promoted is not at all in keeping with American values. I'm going to take every opportunity to criticize him, to raise those issues. I'm not going to engage in the kind of language that he uses." Bernie Sanders said the American people are "never" going to elect a president who "insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims, who insults women, who insults African Americans, and let us not forget that several years ago Trump was in the middle of the so-called birther movement, trying to delegitimize the president of the United States of America." Sanders, whose father was born in Poland, said he knows a "little bit about the immigrant experience," and "nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate. Maybe it has something to do with the color of my skin."
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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