“It is hard to fathom how we can have a candidate who can be so verbose when it comes to denigrating other candidates, yet he finds himself tongue tied when it comes to the most racist and anti-Semitic group in the history of this country”, Greenblatt said. “Perhaps they thought that, since it did not come directly from their mouths, they did not need to disavow the remarks”.
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Trump also told ABC “there’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have”. “I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party”.
Trump said he has brought out millions of new voters to the Republican Party and that he is the only GOP candidate who could beat the Democratic front-runner.
Trump, who later blamed the incident on a faulty earpiece, pointed to a press conference Friday in which he disavowed Duke and reiterated that he did not want white supremacists’ support.
“The reality is, Donald Trump is just being more candid about the agenda of discrimination House Republicans have been advancing for years”, Pelosi said in a statement. Instead, he told a stupid, easily provable lie about not knowing anything about David Duke or the Klan, and he turned it into a whole big thing. You don’t know, I know. “I’ve said that from the very beginning”, said Thune, who said he would like Trump to “clarify” his KKK comments. “If I don’t have an opportunity to answer your question fully – I haven’t said one complete sentence hardly without you interrupting me”, Duke said.
A small group of Republican senators – notably none of whom are up for re-election this year – were especially critical of Trump on Tuesday.
“I try to stay out of the day-to-day ups and downs of the primary”, Ryan said.
“If we’re not going to [inaudible] we don’t have to do the interview and I’ll just play this tape, what’s happening here today, to my people on the Internet”. They keep it going and they said, ‘Oh, we never looked at your Twitter account. “So, give me a list of the groups, and I will let you know”.
The former grand wizard said he had not had any contact with Trump in any form. CBS This Morning also skipped talking about Edwards, who said on his website: “For blacks in the Americas, slavery is the greatest thing that ever happened to them”.
GUTHRIE: I think we settled it.
TRUMP: But, Savannah, he was talking about different groups and couldn’t tell me who the groups were.
Mr. Mitt Romney, a 2012 presidential candidate, tweeted that Mr. Trump’s “coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America”.
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Many anti-Trump Republicans said they recognized that he would face significant opposition from minority voters in the general election.
