Hillary Clinton said Thursday that minorities have "everything" to lose by supporting Donald Trump — accusing him of "reinforcing harmful stereotypes" and running a presidential campaign built on "prejudice and paranoia."
"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," the Democratic nominee told a rally in Reno, Nevada. "He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.
"His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous," she said, later adding that Trump "says he wants to make America great again.
"But more and more, it seems as though his real message seems to be 'make America hate again.'
"This isn't just about one election," Clinton said. "It's about who we are as a nation."
Coming a day after Trump called the former secretary of state a "bigot," Clinton gave her strongest rebuke of the Republican nominee — slamming his recent outreach to African Americans, "in front of largely white audiences," that has "described black communities in such insulting and ignorant terms.
"Poverty, rejection, horrible education, no housing, no homes, no ownership, crime at levels nobody has seen. Right now, he said you can walk down the street and get shot.
"Those are his words," Clinton said. "But when I hear them I think to myself, 'How sad, Donald Trump misses so much.'"
She then detailed such positive attributed of black communities around the country — strong small businesses, historically black colleges and universities, the African-American church, "or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive."
Clinton charged that Trump "certainly doesn't have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color and for every American."
With this biased appeal, Clinton said that what Trump is doing "here is more sinister.
"Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be."
She also tied Trump's new campaign CEO, Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon, to the alt-right movement — which "embraces ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right.
"This is not conservatism or Republicanism as we have known it. These are racist ideas, race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-women ideas.
"The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for this group," Clinton continued. "A fringe element that has effectively taken over the Republican Party."
She noted how Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and how Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, campaigned with the Republican in Mississippi on Wednesday.
"That's who Donald Trump wants by his side when he is addressing an audience of American voters," Clinton said.
She called Trump's campaign a "moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.
"It's a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this."