During a press conference after attending a meeting with House Republicans, Pence said that Duke-who is running for Senate as a Republican in Louisiana and is a staunch Donald Trump supporter-was a “bad man”, but that he wouldn’t call him “deplorable” because he wasn’t in the “name-calling business”.
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Pence, the governor of IN, said on Twitter Monday night that his comments about Duke, IN a pair of interviews on CNN and Fox News, were being taken out of context.
“The simple fact is I’m not in the name calling business”, Pence said Tuesday.
Addressing hundreds on the University of MI campus Tuesday, the Democratic vice presidential nominee said, “If you are chumming around with the head of the Klu Klux Klan, people who have that title, that’s deplorable”.
Pence left the meeting without commenting.
“Donald Trump and I have denounced David Duke repeatedly”, he added. “We have said we do not want his support or the support of people who think like him”.
Clinton has potentially offended countless undecided voters after she lumped “half” of those backing Trump in a “basket of deplorables”.
“In many ways he’s sort of the anti-Trump, he has a strong record as a strong conservative”, Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., told ABC News at the time of Pence’s selection.
“Did she walk it back?” That’s why her remarks are being condemned, not just by Republicans – because instead of acting presidential like she normally does, she acted like Trump. “So what was it – 40%?” “People have a right to know”. It was later announced that she was suffering from dehydration and pneumonia.
Asked if top Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani had gone too far in questioning Clinton’s health prior to Sunday’s incident, Pence demurred.
The most vocal audience reactions, however, came when he attacked Hillary Clinton. We’re praying for a swift recovery.
With Clinton off the trail as she recovers from pneumonia, prolonging the “deplorable” meme also has the virtue of keeping campaign conversation away from controversies that the campaign has more trouble finessing – like her email server or its patchy disclosure about the state of her health. “We’ll leave it at that”.
Corker said everyone was impressed with how Pence conducted himself.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Asheville, N.C. Trump first said he would share the results in his exam on Dr. Oz, then campaign aides said he wouldn’t on the show, and then Trump reportedly showed up at the interview with the information and did share it during the taping.
Trump will unveil the plans in a speech in a Philadelphia suburb, a key area in a vital swing state as Trump tries to build his appeal with more moderate, independent voters – especially women.
Trump’s basket is filled with “deplorables, ” according to Clinton. If you are “very enthusiastic” about a candidate who has based his campaign on scapegoating immigrants, Latinos and African-Americans, talked of banning Muslims from the country, hesitated to disown the Ku Klux Klan and employed anti-Semitic imagery – well, you might be a racist.
In the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries, 22.51 and 24.67 percent of registered Republicans came out to vote in Bucks County. In Russia, for example, President Vladimir Putin’s iron hand hangs over his country’s media, determining what it can and cannot report to the people. He called the issue a distraction.
The rollout comes as Trump furiously tried to make inroads with moderate, often suburban, women, who have been reluctant to support a candidate who has made many derogatory remarks toward females.
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Sen. Bob Corker says Mike Pence gave out his cell number in the Republican senators’ weekly meeting. “All of this falls on deaf ears to Donald Trump”.
