Trump hits back at Clinton for writing off his supporters as a 'basket of deplorables'.

Trump hits back at Clinton for writing off his supporters as a 'basket of deplorables'; Hillary under-fire for insult to 'millions of Americans', as she writes off Donald supports as 'racist and xenophobic' outcasts. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fired back at rival Hillary Clinton after she branded half his supporters racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic and said they belonged in a 'basket of deplorables'. Speaking at an LGBT evening fundraiser in New York on Friday, the Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. secretary of state said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric from such individuals through his behavior as a candidate for the White House. 'To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables,'' Clinton said. 'Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.' Trump this morning hit back at her on Twitter tweeting: 'Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people. I think it will cost her at the Polls!' Trump's family, friends and supporters were also quick to jump to his defense. His running mate Mike Pence said Saturday at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that Clinton's comments should be 'denounced in the strongest possible terms'. He said that Trump supporters are 'not a basket of anything', adding, they are 'members of every class of this country who know that we can make America great again'. Pence said, 'the men and women who support Donald Trump's campaign are hard-working Americans: Farms, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community'. And his son Eric Trump also took to Twitter writing: 'Look at the #BasketOfDeplorables in Pensacola Florida last night! What a horrible statement. #CrookedHillary'. However Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, was quick to point out that the photo he shared of the tweet was actually an old snap taken in Dallas.