Rivals slam Trump for blaming KKK stumble on earpiece

Trump said, “I can tell you the one person Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to run against is me”.

Ryan was the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012. I can’t hear you. “Is he really so stupid that he think southerners aren’t offended by the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke?”.

Trump’s history during the primary on inflammatory race issues is one of the top reasons many give for their refusal to support his candidacy. That was undoubtedly helpful to the Trump campaign, yet also proved to be astute analysis for a daily program that traffics in three hours of political talk.

Trump earlier had disavowed the support from Duke, but on Sunday morning he said “Honestly, I don’t know David Duke”.

But after Trump’s disavowal of his own support in January, Taylor said that Trump is “too smart to accept my endorsement”.

But on Sunday, Donald Trump swatted away the easy answers and instead feigned ignorance about the KKK and its most infamous Grand Wizard. I did notice today, though, that Ben Shapiro of Breitbart – a vocal anti-Trumper – has been regularly retweeting anti-semitic cartoons and messages that have been tweeted at him for criticizing Trump. Of Christie, he said a leader who considers himself a “northeastern moderate Republican” should be challenged on his link to Trump.

Still, Trump continued to notch endorsements from Republicans: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an advocate of tougher immigration laws, said Monday that he’s backing Trump.

Regardless of the quality of CNN’s earpiece, Trump’s Sunday comments seem to contradict any implication that he misunderstood the question. As far back as 2000, Trump had some choice words for Duke when he discussed the former Klansman joining the Reform Party.

‘If they violate the pledge, I would do something that would make them very unhappy, ‘ Trump said. Jeff Sessions, a would-be Cruz ally who backed Trump instead.

“Do you condemn David Duke?”.

“You tried to do something, Mike”, Scarborough said in response.

Nor is Trump, or any other candidate, responsible for who is endorsing him.

‘I disavowed David Duke a day before at a major press conference and I’m saying to myself, “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?”‘ Trump explained, pointing to a presser in which he appeared with his new surrogate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, on Friday.

He later took to social media to make clear his “separation” from Duke.

The comments sparked a wave of censures with just two days to go before 11 states hold GOP primaries involving about a quarter of the party’s total nominating delegate count.

Haley, who is of Indian descent, mentioned the 2015 Charleston church shootings, in which a white man killed nine people in a historically black church. “Maybe he’s anxious. The polls don’t indicate it. Maybe he’s anxious that Cruz and Rubio are gaining on him, and he doesn’t want to tick off anybody that might vote for him”.

“It’s awesome what’s going on”, he told NBC, calling his campaign a “movement”.