“We appeal to their highest ideals”, Ryan said.
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“He’s been the guy, that made really better than any other person the point- this massive immigration to America…I believe will destroy the very foundations of America. and lead us to catastrophe”, said Duke in a live radio interview that went on for an hour.
“Why wouldn’t anybody running for office want any vote they can get?” “This is not conservatism”, the new speaker said at the time.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee and former MA governor, demanded via Twitter that Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, be disqualified from the presidential race because of his “coddling” of the Ku Klux Klan’s “repugnant bigotry”.
Asked Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he rejected the support, Trump said, “Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke”. He had previously come out against Trump’s proposed entry ban for all Muslims.
The Republican panic continues over Donald Trump, with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaking Tuesday morning against The Donald’s failure to condemn the endorsement of Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Later that day, Trump tweeted: “As I stated at the press conference on Friday regarding David Duke- I disavow”.
Trump, who won commanding victories in Super Tuesday primaries and marched closer to the Republican presidential nomination, answered reporters’ questions about how he’d work with members of Congress if he wins the White House.
Many Washington Republicans are increasingly open about their dismay at the prospect of Trump winning the GOP nomination. Sen. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists”. In the interview he said he’d never heard of David Duke, the KKK leader in question. As far back as 2000, Trump had some choice words for Duke when he discussed the former Klansman joining the Reform Party. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.
Haley, who is of Indian descent, mentioned the 2015 Charleston church shootings, in which a white man killed nine people in a historically black church. Ryan repeated on Tuesday that he would support whoever the nominee is, echoing Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Did he endorse me, or what’s going on? “We spoke with one woman who was a Trump supporter until she heard that interview with you and changed her vote to Marco Rubio”.
“Trump refuses to denounce the KKK”, the narrator says.
Trump has expressed dislike for Duke in the past.
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Only time will tell whether Trump needs support from the White Supremacist groups and whether he has any affinity for them.
