GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Tuesday called David Duke “that bad man”, but the Mandeville Republican’s campaign says the top of ticket needs the former Ku Klux Klan leader in Louisiana.
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So which group is more deplorable and risky for America – “xenophobes” and the like, or groups that hate this country and its Constitution?
Those are the jibes Donald Trump has recently unleashed on Hillary Clinton. But not all Republicans were pleased.
“The only reason David Duke gets play is because the media keeps him out there, not the Trump campaign”, Pierson said. That’s despite the fact that, by any measure, Trump has offered less detail on far fewer issues over the course of his campaign than Clinton, who has released so many policy proposals, her campaign published a book of them.
Trump and his team seized on the comments as his supporters across the country embraced a new rallying cry.
And Pence’s logic is odd, because Trump’s “deplorables” regularly tell us that if they’re telling the truth about black and Muslims and Jews and others, it’s not name-calling; it’s not racism; it’s just facts. “It just shows that part of what Trump does is contagious”. Another wore a homemade shirt that read, “I’m with deplorable”.
Pence said he was “not going to validate the language Hillary Clinton used to describe the American people”. “She looks down on us”. One of Trump’s harshest Republican critics, South Carolina Sen. The incident was captured by assembled television networks.
“How stupid is it, that you can’t say he’s deplorable?” said co-host Joe Scarborough. “To every kid in America tonight, I want you to know that your parents are working so hard to make your life better, and to make your country better”. And he’s accused Clinton of starting the “birther” movement questioning President Barack Obama’s citizenship, when he was its most vocal proponent.
But in the time since, Trump insulted Cruz’s wife and father.
He said that, after listening to Clinton’s attacks, Trump had come to the conclusion that she was guilty of numerous charges she was lobbing.
He says he “really, really, really want [s] to elect Hillary Clinton”. “Mike Pence is a good man – he’s a friend”, Cruz said, according to multiple news reports. It’s ridiculous that they attack me because of my involvement in that non-violent Klan four decades ago.
Clinton is set to return to the fray on Friday after several days of rest when she attends a Black Women’s Agenda symposium in Washington her campaign announced. Still, he questioned whether it would have much impact.
“I think it’s a great tactic that’s misapplied”, he said.
Republican operative Ryan Williams, a former Romney aide, warned that the Trump approach carries risk. “We have said we do not want his support and we do not want the support of people who think like him”.
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“They are deplorable”, he added, “but the vast majority of Trump’s supporters are not”.
