A fired up Hillary Clinton drew loud cheers from supporters Tuesday evening as she condemned the rhetoric and behavior of Donald Trump's supporters.

"I love this country. I think we already are great. Now I think we can be greater," she said as a rape heckler was escorted from her campaign rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Clinton continued in what appeared to be an off-the-cuff riff aimed at her heckler, the GOP nominee and his base: "And you know, I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump."

"It is time for us to say, 'No! We are not going backwards, we are going forwards into a brighter future," she said as her supporters cheered her on.

Clinton's digs at Trump's base came early in a speech that started far behind schedule.

The campaign rally Tuesday evening was scheduled originally to begin at 8:30 p.m. and end at 10:00 p.m. However, the Democratic nominee and her motorcade didn't show up until around 9:50 p.m., and even then she didn't take the stage for another 20 minutes. It was Clinton's third campaign rally of the day.

The man who interrupted the Democratic nominee Tuesday evening in Fort Lauderdale shouted "Bill Clinton is a rapist!" before being escorted out by event organizers.

Protesters shouting this exact phrase have interrupted Clinton campaign rallies in multiple battleground states, including in Ohio and North Carolina. In most cases, the protesters were seen wearing a shirt bearing the former president's likeness with the word "RAPE" printed across the front.

The rape protests can be traced back to a contest launched on Sept. 30 by talk radio personality and Trump supporter Alex Jones.

Jones is awarding $1,000 to anyone who can get the Bill Clinton "RAPE" t-shirt on national television for "at least five seconds," according to the radio host's conspiracy theory website, Infowars.com.

The Clinton "RAPE" shirts can be bought on Jones' website for $20.

The Infowars.com promotion, which has an operating budget of $100,000, is also offering $5,000 to anyone who can get the "RAPE" t-shirt on national television while also yelling, "Bill Clinton is a rapist!"

Jones, who believes the Sandy Hook massacre was a "false flag" operation and that the federal government is putting chemicals in the water that " turn the friggin' frogs gay," acquired the "RAPE" shirts from longtime Trump confidante and notorious " dirty trickster" Roger Stone.

Clinton's digs at the GOP nominee's base Tuesday evening are also reminiscent of a riff she did early this year when she claimed at a fundraiser in New York City that "half of Trump supporters" are "sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," she told donors on Sept. 9.

"And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric," she added. "Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."

Prior to the Sept. 9 fundraiser, Clinton said nearly same thing in an interview with Israel's Channel 2.



The difference between what Clinton said in the Channel 2 interview and what she said at the fundraiser is that, at the fundraiser, she put a figure ("half) on the number of Trump's supporters who are supposedly "irredeemable" and "deplorable."