re: Was there any single thing that Hillary Clinton would like to do over?

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1.) If she hadn't made the little basket of deplorables comment.

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This. I don't think we've had a presidential candidate in recent history refer to people that support their opponent as racist, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, etc. We've seen surrogates, but not an actual candidate display enough unadulterated contempt and hate for a huge part of the population.

People noticed. Democrats brushed it off and tried to draw false equivalency with Trump's tweet of the day....but middle America heard that. The Trump campaign definitely heard it. It made painting Democrats as coastal elitists who are out of touch with the middle class easy for Trump's campaign.