"I think that we also are cherry-picking headlines from a website, and is Hillary Clinton running against a website?” Kellyanne Conway asks. | AP Photo Trump camp brushes aside 'alt-right' association

Ahead of Hillary Clinton's planned speech linking Donald Trump and his campaign to the "alt-right" movement, the Republican nominee's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said she is "not that familiar with it, to be frank with you."

“I’ve read about it, but I think that we also are cherry-picking headlines from a website, and is Hillary Clinton running against a website?” Conway remarked on "CBS This Morning," alluding to criticism about the coverage of Breitbart News, whose chairman joined Trump's campaign last week as its CEO.


Asked whether the Trump campaign is a "platform for the alt-right movement," Conway responded, "No, not at all."

"We’ve never even discussed it internally. It certainly isn't part of our strategy meetings. It’s nothing that Mr. Trump says out on the stump," Conway said. "And again, I just am confounded by the strategy. Hillary Clinton is a smart woman. She has very smart, savvy strategists around her who know what they are doing."

The Trump campaign, Conway continued, feels that voters "deserve and expect a conversation on substantive issues that they talk about around kitchen tables and over cappuccino counters."

"You’re not going to hear that today," she said of Clinton's speech in Reno, Nevada.

Previewing her speech to CNN on Wednesday night, Clinton declared that Trump "is taking a hate movement mainstream" and has "brought it into his campaign"

"He's bringing it to our communities and our country, and someone who's questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who's 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 said on "Anderson Cooper 360º."

But as far as whether Trump's repeated declaration that Clinton is a "bigot" is substantive, Conway suggested that her boss has been called worse.

"Have you seen what he is called by her and others on a daily basis?" Conway asked. "People get away with calling him everything in the book and people, you know, objective journalists, they will laugh at that, they'll put it on their Twitter feed. What he is saying is that her policies and the policies of many in her party who are mayors of major cities over a number of decades have not helped people of color."

Pressed on whether that makes Clinton a "bigot," as Trump has said, Conway responded, "well, and he has called — she is calling him that today."

"She's going to call him worse and everybody is going to cover it like it's news," she predicted.