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Clinton claims she is ‘sympathetic’ to Trump supporters

By Ashe Schow

Published June 29, 2016 7:35pm ET

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Clinton claims she is ‘sympathetic’ to Trump supporters — Clinton began her remarks to YouTube stars she hopes will help spread her message to the youth by saying she was sympathetic to "a lot of the people" who support Trump's message. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said during a town hall with YouTube stars on Tuesday (yes, that really happened) that she was “sympathetic” toward supporters of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Her sympathy would probably be more credible if Clinton hadn’t immediately followed it up by accusing Trump’s supporters of “xenophobia, the misogyny, the homophobia, the Islamophobia.”

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