Story highlights Trump is leading a "hate movement," Clinton said

Clinton and Trump have both accused each other of "bigotry" during the campaign

Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) The already-biting personal attacks between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump escalated Wednesday, with the Democratic nominee accusing her rival of leading a "hate movement" and Trump labeling Clinton a "bigot."

"He is taking a hate movement mainstream. He's brought it into his campaign," Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "He is bringing it to our communities and our country. And someone who has questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who has attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force, is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia."

Clinton will hit Trump and his advisers in Reno for "embracing extremism and presenting a divisive and dystopian view of America," a Clinton aide who previewed the speech told CNN on Tuesday.

A little over an hour earlier in Jackson, Mississippi, Trump issued his bluntest and most provocative characterization yet of Clinton as part of his accusations that she treats minorities, and black people in particular, simply as votes to be counted.

"Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future," Trump said at a campaign rally here, speaking to an overwhelmingly white audience of supporters in the deep-red state. "She doesn't care what her policies have done to your communities. She has no remorse. She's going to do nothing for Hispanics and African-Americans."

This woman's face when Trump has the nerve to call Hillary a "bigot" 😂😂😂 #Trump https://t.co/4iMbHe1out — Sarah Wood (@SarahWoodwriter) August 25, 2016

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