Hillary Clinton launches race attack on Trump as she says he 'retweets white supremacists and spreads hateful conspiracy theories' – and blasts him for getting endorsed by KKK newspaper

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Hillary Clinton accused rival Donald Trump of sending racially charged 'dog whistles to his most hateful supporters' – then hit her rival for getting endorsed by the newspaper of the KKK.

 'He retweets white supremacists and spreads hateful conspiracy theories,' Clinton told a racially mixed crowd in rural Winterville, North Carolina. 'He has spent this entire campaign offering dog whistles to his most hateful supporters.'

Then she brought up the KKK endorsement, based on an article in The Crusader, as the Washington Post reported after it came out.

'Just a few days ago,' Trump was 'endorsed by the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan. They wrote their endorsement under the slogan of his campaign, 'Make America Great Again,' Clinton said. 

Earlier in the campaign, Trump for a period of time refused to repudiate white supremacist David Duke, who had announced his support for Trump, saying, 'I don’t know anything about him. '

'Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form. This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign,' said the campaign when asked about the endorsement following Clinton's speech. 

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VOTE PROMPTLY: Hillary Clinton held an early-vote rally, where she brought up housing discrimination suits against Donald Trump, as well as his backing by a KKK newspaper

Clinton embraces nurse Mae Wiggins, who is featured in a campaign ad, and who sued a Trump property in 1964 for denying her an apartment based on her race

Hillary Clinton brought up Donald Trump's endorsement by a KKK newspaper Thursday at an early vote rally

The endorsement in the Crusader said, carried the banner headline, 'Make America Great Again. The paper wrote: 'America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.' 

Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form. This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign,' said the campaign when asked about the endorsement following Clinton's speech.

In January, Trump retweeted a Twitter user with the handle '@WhiteGenocideTM,' The Hill reported in one roundup.  

At the top of her remarks, Clinton compared herself to the Chicago Cubs, who snapped a 108-year drought to win the World Series – and connected the team's heroic championship win to her own band of women supporters.

The Crusader endorsed Trump, though his campaign denounced it

'Last time the Cubs won, women couldn't vote, and I think women are making up for that in this election,' Clinton told a crowd near Greenville, North Carolina.

'Last night was very special, and who knows, maybe we'll see even more history made in a few days,' she said, pointing to her own bid to become the first woman president.

Clinton grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois rooting for the Cubs and going to Wrigley Field with her dad.

'It's been a long time, 108 years to win a championship and make history. I only wish that my great father and the great Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, could've seen it happen.'

Clinton famously also called herself a Yankee fan when became a senator from New York. She said the Cubs were her National League team.

 In another bit of history, Clinton got introduced by Mae Wiggins, an African American nurse who sued for discrimination after she says she failed to get an apartment in a Trump owned and managed property back in 1964 'just because I was black.'

'When I think about how they lied to me just because I was black, I still feel the anger.,' Higgins said, growing emotional on the stage as the crowd grew nearly silent. 'I can't stand this experience again without the pain,' she said.

Introducing Clinton was D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who stressed her 'North Carolina blood' and told supporters to take advantage of a court-provided additional time for early voting in the state.

'Only one candidate … I can say truly loves you and North Carolina and that is Hillary Rodham Clinton,' Norton said.

'Don't waste it,' she told a group of supporters in a state that has been a battleground for repeated lawsuits over voting rights, race-based redicstring, and other contentious issues.

When she wasn't hitting Trump for his connections to racists, Clinton was ridiculing her rival for some of his statements. Clinton said Trump 'could easily insult a foreign leader and start a real war instead of a twitter war.'

She noted that Trump said he had the 'greatest temperament,' then joked: 'He knows we can see and hear him, right?

'This is someone who at another rally yesterday actually said out loud to himself, "'Stay on point, Donald, stay on point' – in reference to Trump's televised reminder to himself at a rally Wednesday.

She joked: His campaign probably put that in the teleprompter: ‘Stay on point Donald, Stay on point.’