Mike Pence refuses to call David Duke ‘deplorable’

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is expected to appear at a rally in Dunmore Wednesday, according to the Donald Trump website.

Clinton has since expressed regret for the comment.

“What Hillary Clinton apparently doesn’t know is that the people supporting this campaign are hard-working people”, he added before describing the millions of working-class voters supporting the Trump campaign.

“You would call [Duke] a “deplorable”?”

When asked specifically in the CNN interview if he would call Duke “deplorable”, Pence said, “I’m not in the name-calling business”.

“No one with a record of failure at home and overseas, no one with her avalanche of dishonesty and corruption and no one with that low opinion of the American people should every people elected president of the United States of America”, Mr. Pence said. “The millions of people who support Donald Trump around this country are not a basket of anything”.

Trump and Pence have also caught fire for laudatory comments they’ve made about Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader who is widely denounced by USA politicians of both parties. On Tuesday, Pence again declined to say that Duke is deplorable. I had a flawless Republican voting record.

Clinton apologized on Saturday for saying “half” of Trump’s supporters could be characterized that way, but also said she would continue “calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric” in the presidential campaign.

Pence spoke to reporters following a meeting with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill aimed to assuage concern about the party’s nominee. One of those meetings was with Texas Sen.

Pence served six terms in Congress prior to becoming the governor of Indiana.

The Texas Republican senator and onetime rival of Trump’s has refused to endorse the billionaire.

For Pence, it seems acceptable to label Mexican immigrants as drug runners and rapists and Muslims as terrorists, but calling a man who believes the color of his skin somehow makes him better than other people is just going too far.

But Cruz left without answering questions about whether he will vote for Trump, endorse him or whether Pence asked him to publicly back Trump.