Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Monday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that the Trump campaign will continue to criticize Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark, while adding that voters have a “right to know” about candidates’ medical records.
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“While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you hard-working American patriots who love your country and want a better future for all our people”, he said.
It’s true that in an interview on CNN on September 13, Blitzer asked Pence if he would call David Duke “deplorable”, and Pence replied, “I’m not in the name-calling business”.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton criticized her opponent Donald Trump’s supporters with the phrase last Friday at a LGBT fundraiser in NY. “But let’s be clear, what’s really “deplorable” is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right” movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.
“The simple fact is I’m not in the name calling business”, Pence said Tuesday. The campaign said they do not want his support or the support of people who think like him.
Trump, while lambasting Clinton for her “deplorables” statement, has stayed above the health fray.
At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Pence was asked again about his stance on David Duke and why he wouldn’t call him deplorable. “Yeah, Donald Trump called Mexicans “rapists’ and has called you and your supporters a hundred different names, but there is a double standard in play in this election”, Meyers said”. What the GOP is instead, as Donald Trump Junior‘s recent retweeting of Nazi memes demonstrates, is the main-streamer of extremist ideologies.
“He is working with all of us to put this country back on track”, said Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday, after he and other House Republicans met privately with Pence. The candidates who didn’t support exceptions tripped up in their answers, especially former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, who famously mishandled the answer.
Fisher said the Clinton quote pales in comparison to the many questionable statements she said Trump has made.
“Lee emphasized that Republicans must identify David Duke’s racism as deplorable, acknowledging that he ordinarily uses terms like “deplorable” to describe messages, ideas, actions, and organizations, but not people”.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who chaired Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, said the Democratic nominee’s comments pale in comparison to Trump’s. Granted, supporters had to pay for the cards, but with the Clintons you have to pay for everything. On the exact first day the word came out that he was supporting Mr. Trump.
It’s been a bumpy few days for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign bandwagon. “You know what’s deplorable?”
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“I think it’s a great tactic that’s misapplied” with Trump, he said.
