“To say you don’t know about the Ku Klux Klan?”
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The turmoil grew from coast to coast Monday after a raucous rally in Redford, Virginia, as Trump endured taunts from “Black Lives Matters” protesters a day after initially refusing to disavow the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. David Duke endorsed me? OK.
Trump dismissed concerns over his muddled response in the CNN interview, saying, “David Duke and all were disavowed, I disavowed them on Friday”.
“I disavowed them every time I speak to somebody virtually, and you know, they just keep it going, they keep it going”, he said.
Marino said he believes that top Republicans in Washington will eventually come around and work with Trump, warning they wouldn’t have much choice, “the American people are fed up with it and the elected officials, if they don’t grasp it, they’ll be out of a job”. He blamed the incident on a faulty earpiece that he said made it hard to understand the interviewer’s questions.
Rubio enlisted Haley to help him on the campaign trail, and she picked up the thread as well. The Party of Lincoln has reaped what it sowed: All these years of anti-government, anti-immigrant, anti-establishment and often hateful, venomous rhetoric and dog whistling attacks on President Barack Obama have produced that strategy’s uber-candidate, someone who embraces all of it without the niceties – or even intellectual consistencies. I don’t mind disavowing anyone. The former MA governor will give a major speech Thursday in Utah about the state 2016 presidential race.
“If I was American, I would vote for Donald Trump”, Le Pen tweeted in French.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest wouldn’t condemn the comments, himself, saying it’s up to America to decide on them.
“It’s clearly intentional”, said an operative for a rival campaign, who asked for anonymity to discuss the subject without their candidate’s permission. I mean he knows, I think he knows that I’m not in the KKK.
“I don’t know what group you’re talking about”, he told Jake Tapper in an interview.
The long-standing link between the Democratic Party and white supremacists in the south began unraveling during the 1960s as the national party became increasingly aligned with the black civil rights struggle and white southerners began to vote for Republican candidates. Jeff Sessions, Rep. Duncan Hunter of San Diego and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He told the network at one point that “there’s nobody who’s done so much for equality as I have”. “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about”. Trump is surely not going to end the day with all 595 Republican delegates that are up for grabs, but he could wind up with a near-insurmountable lead. “I taught my two little ones you don’t lie and make things up…”
Clinton added that Trump “obviously” has done very well and “could be on the path” to the GOP nomination.
Trump says on Fox News, “He has to get out”.
“There aren’t enough judges in the world to hear all those cases”. Speculation continues to sizzle that Scott could endorse Trump in advance of Florida’s March 15 winner-take-all primary.
TRUMP: “Of course I am”.
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Rubio closed with a warning that if Trump wins the Republican nomination, he will be torn down in a general election, guaranteeing a Democratic win in the fall.
