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“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that's never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a statement.

“But let's be clear, what's really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.”

Clinton was referring to the Republican nominee's campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, formerly the chairman of Breitbart News.

Clinton went on to slam Trump’s “deplorable” habit of elevating the message of the “fringe bigots” that follow him.

“It's deplorable that he's attacked a federal judge for his ‘Mexican heritage,’ bullied a Gold Star family because of their Muslim faith and promoted the lie that our first black president is not a true American,” she continued. “So I won't stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign.”