WASHINGTON, D.C.: Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Saturday (Sunday in Manila) she regretted calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorable” — a remark the billionaire Republican candidate slammed as her “worst mistake of the political season.”

The former secretary of State came under fire after telling a New York fundraiser on Friday night: “To be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”|

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