Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence abstained from calling former Klu Klux Klan head David Duke “deplorable” on Monday night, instead choosing to attack Hillary Clinton for her choice of words in describing some of Donald Trump’s supporters. David Duke is deplorable, even if Mike Pence can’t bring himself to say so. “You know me better than that”, Pence told CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
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“While my opponent calls you Deplorable and irredeemable”, he said in Asheville, “I call you hard-working American patriots who love their country and want a better future for all our people”.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”, she said. Clinton said in a speech last week that half of Trump’s supporters belong “in a basket of deplorables” and accused them of being racist and homophobic. When Trump accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the woman’s card” a few months ago, Clinton supporters were on the street lickety-split with honest-to-goodness woman’s cards, in the form of a deck of playing cards featuring Clinton and other famous American women.
The other man reached around a security officer to push another man in the back of his head, then hit a female protester who was being led away in the face with the back of her hand.
“Essentially you’re delegitimizing their attack by simply muddying the water, and saying, ‘We’re all guilty, now what?'” said Martin. “So what was it – 40%?”
Mike Pence, who has shown a measured approach to the mudslinging this election season, has stood by while his presidential partner has hurled exhausted insults at his Democratic opponent and quite a few perceived xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic slurs at her supporters.
“People are vying for the highest office in the land”, the in governor said. On Sunday, at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, the former NY senator seemingly collapsed after leaving the event early.
She said Trump is “feeding into the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country”.
The AFL-CIO is dropping more than 50,000 mailers to union families in Florida this week touting their support for Hillary Clinton. We’re praying for a swift recovery. It would have been laughable except for the thousands of cheering Trumpists who have cheered every anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant word Trump has said during this campaign. “We’ll leave it at that”.
Blitzer didn’t let Pence off the hook, though.
Trump says he, too, plans to release details from a recent physical, though it’s unclear when that will happen and how much information he will provide.
Pence added that Trump was not violating any laws by withholding the data, though he acknowledged “there’s a bit of a tradition here”.
“It used to be cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico”, Trump said.
This question is a good indicator of how one votes: Republican Mitt Romney won 61 percent of those who expressed negative stereotypes.
Pence also said that the GOP ticket has “momentum”, and when asked about its vulnerability with female voters, Pence argued that they are going to come out in large numbers for the GOP. “It’s not what the American people are talking about”.
Donald Trump has finally acknowledged the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. “If they knew there was retribution, if they knew there were consequences, they wouldn’t even be thinking about it”.
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“Look, when Donald Trump and I said that the small and bullying president of Russian Federation was a stronger leader on the world stage than this president and Secretary Clinton, that was not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin”, Pence said.
