Hillary Clinton sees one-quarter of the country as a “basket of deplorables.”

She made the comment about “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters during a fundraising speech to elite New York City donors Friday night.

Today, Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, struck back.

“Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people who support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms,” Pence said.

“The truth of the matter is the people who support Donald Trump’s campaign are hardworking Americans.

“Farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community, members of every class of this country who know we can make America great again,” he said.

“So let me just say from the bottom of my heart: Hillary, they are not a basket of anything. They are Americans and they deserve your respect,” he said to sustained applause.

“I haven’t heard that level of disdain for Americans than I can even repeat since Barack Obama described people that opposed him as people who cling to their guns and religion,” Pence said.

“Well let me just say, no one with the record of failure at home and abroad, no one with her avalanche of dishonesty and corruptions, and no one with that low opinion of the American people should ever be elected president of the United States of America,” he said.

“We must decide here and now that Hillary Clinton will never be president.”