Rubio hits Trump over KKK, ‘lousy earpiece’

The floppy-haired conduit for humanity’s worst ideas was attempting to backtrack on a CNN interview in which he was questioned over his support from various white supremacist groups.

“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the blaming, the finger pointing that is going on on the Republican side”, Clinton said in MA on Monday. “Why wouldn’t he condemn the Ku Klux Klan? It’s certainly a very interesting quote”.

Polls by Monmouth University put Mr Trump ahead in Alabama and Oklahoma, two states out of a dozen voting today in the first multiple-state ballots in the U.S. presidential races for the two parties.

O’Reilly, of course, blamed the media for jumping on Trump.

When pressed again over the KKK’s support for Trump, the Republican said he would have to “research” the groups before he could disavow anyone.

Later on Sunday, evidence was produced that Trump had in fact expressed strong disapproval of Duke in the past. In 2000, he wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining why he abandoned the possibility of running for president on the Reform Party ticket. “That is not company I wish to keep”.

During the interview with CNN’s State of the Union, Jake Tapper asked about the endorsement and if Trump would distance himself from David Duke and the KKK.

TRUMP: Well, I have to look at the group. He said that the questioner in the earlier phone-in interview had asked about Duke and various “other groups”, and that he didn’t want to disavow groups whose identity he didn’t know. Trump responded: “So I don’t know”. I would have to look. It would be very unfair to disavow a group, Matt, if the group shouldn’t be disavowed. “They were there, CNN was there, and they gave me a lousy earpiece”. I don’t believe I’ve ever met him.

On Monday, Rubio defended himself on one point: an attack from Trump on the size of is ears.

Trump refused to condemn that endorsement or say he didn’t want the support of white supremacists – four times.

“Either he’s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn’t been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay, or perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the vets or to the disabled like he’s been telling us he’s been doing.”

“How are we going to grow the party if we nominate someone who doesn’t repudiate the Ku Klux Klan?” I don’t care how bad the earpiece is, Ku Klux Klan comes through pretty clearly.

Cruz tweeted on Sunday: “Really sad”.

Donald Trump has tried to brush aside the latest controversy to dog his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination.

Florida senator Marco Rubio received 16 per cent, Texas senator Ted Cruz 15 per cent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson 10 per cent and OH governor John Kasich 6 per cent.

“I disavowed David Duke all weekend long, on Facebook, on Twitter, and obviously, it is never enough”, the real estate billionaire added.

“You know what my ears are?”