MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who has been criticized for being too favorable toward Donald Trump, said Monday that the GOP frontrunner’s failure to disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke disqualified him from being president.
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Trump on Monday blamed the Klan controversy on a faulty earpiece that prevented him from fully understanding the question posed to him on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Fox News reported Tuesday that Trump had asked, “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?” “I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying”.
Congressional Republican leaders publicly rebuked Donald Trump on Tuesday for not quickly and firmly condemning the Ku Klux Klan in a recent CNN interview.
“I think it would hurt Donald Trump because he’s not into political correctness”, she said.
“The only reason we were given was that Mr. Trump did not want us there”, 22-year-old senior Brooke Gladney told the newspaper.
Rubio and Trump are in the midst of an escalating war of words, as a result of Rubio’s attacks on Trump during Thursday night’s debate. “He is the only one who has a true plan for this country”, Bentley said.
“There are going to be times that you’re not going to agree with the person that’s leading your party” and “that’s always the case and I don’t think this year will be any different”, Thune said.
Trump didn’t immediately – but did ultimately – distance himself from the support. I’m not running around being by his side in every single stop because I have any aspirations to go into politics.
Trump’s support among white supremacists has been building from the day he announced his candidacy, when he characterized Mexican immigrants as “rapists”.
The latest shake up in the GOP race comes as attention shifts to the South, where the region will dominate on Super Tuesday – March 1 – and the weeks beyond. Stern, the son of Holocaust survivors, said he and Trump have discussed at length the “need to stand up against racism and intolerance”. A number of Southern states including Virginia are holding contests, and opinion polls show Trump is likely to consolidate his status as the favorite to win the nomination.
Without naming Trump, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., both took shots at the Republican front-runner.
We can not nominate someone in our party who-in addition to being a con artist and sharing all these opinions with the Democrats on Planned Parenthood and Israel and you name it-someone who this week repeatedly refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
John Davis, a Trump supporter from Louisiana, says he’s not bothered by Duke’s racist past these days. “His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not the character of America”, Romney said. “When he did it, ‘Oh he’s on message, ‘” Rubio said, adding.
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“You have to help somebody win, not just hope somebody else loses”, said Mike DuHaime, a GOP strategist who most recently advised Christie, but also worked as a strategist for McCain, former President George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani, among others. A vote for Donald Trump now is a vote for Hillary Clinton in November. “If someone wants to be our nominee, they must understand this”.
