What she said on Friday:
Speaking at a fundraiser in New York, Mrs Clinton said: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables’. Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
They were, she told the LGBT event, “racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic - you name it”.
The rest of the Republican nominee’s supporters, according to Mrs Clinton, were “just desperate for change”.
(oh yeah, we are desperate for real change!)
What Clinton says now
Apologising, Mrs Clinton said: “Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ - that was wrong.”
(I believe she meant to say ALL Trump supporters...)
Mr Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, said: “They are not a basket of anything. They are Americans & they deserve your respect.”
Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee, said Mrs Clinton had shown “her outright contempt for ordinary people”.
Millions of Americans, he said, supported the Republican nominee because they were “sick of corrupt career politicians like Hillary Clinton”.
Other Republicans mocked Mrs Clinton, sharing photos of the crowd in the Florida venue where Mr Trump spoke on Friday.
The hash tag #BasketOfDeplorables has been trending on social media as indignant Republicans attack Mrs Clinton.
“A candidate who writes off half the country as a #BasketOfDeplorables should be disqualified”, was one comment on Twitter.