By Paul Brock, Church Militant - Two weeks after Hillary called half of Trump supporters "deplorables," voters strongly rejected her 'basket of deplorables' approach... A Washington Post-ABC News poll revealed that 65% of registered voters thought the approach was unfair (notably, 47% of registered Democrats thought it unfair as well). .. Trump, of course, went on to win the 2016 election and, embracing the insult, even gave a congratulations to all of the deplorables.