“I don’t know, maybe she should’ve been a housekeeper.”
Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump on Monday during their first presidential debate for mocking 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado over her weight and race.
“One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest,” Clinton said. “He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina."
Tuesday morning, Trump responded on Fox and Friends, saying "she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”
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At a Trump rally in Bedford, New Hampshire, on Thursday, supporters told BuzzFeed News the comments have no effect on their support for the Republican candidate.
Many referred to the recent focus on the issue as "political correctness run amok."
Not one person interviewed said the comments had any impact on their support of Trump, and not one said they view the remarks as sexist or racist.
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Claire, who lives in the area, said she thinks "political correctness has run amok."
Claire initially said she didn't personally witness Trump mocking Machado "so I don’t know if he did that or not," and claimed to not be aware of "Miss Housekeeping" being in referral to a Latina stereotype.
"I don’t think Donald Trump is what you call a politically correct person, but he says what he means," she said.
"I’m a person that says it like it is, and if it hurts your feelings, well, I’m sorry that I hurt your feelings but that’s how I feel," she said.
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Jim Edmunds, pictured left, told BuzzFeed News he thinks the comments isare "just a minor distraction from the real issues in the country" and will "certainly not" affect his vote.
“I think to say Trump is racist is ridiculous," Jim Edmunds' son, Matt, pictured right, said. "He’s been in the public eye for 40 years, and he doesn’t have a history of racism."
"It’s just divisive tactics by the liberals and the media," Matt said. "That’s what’s dividing our country — people calling other people racist."
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