David Duke responds to his involvement in the GOP presidential race

Mar 02, 2016, 09:54

"Why wouldn't he condemn the Ku Klux Klan?".

But it was Trump's statements about Duke that 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.

Later on Sunday, apparently attempting damage-control, Trump took to Twitter to echo his earlier disavowals of Duke. He also noted that he disavowed Duke's endorsement at a Friday press conference during which he rolled out the endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. "This is not company I wish to keep", he said of Duke in 2000. "It is incumbent upon all candidates for office to reject and disavow any of these groups should they endorse of express support for their campaigns".

Rubio enlisted Haley to help him on the campaign trail, and she picked up the thread as well.

"This is a con man who is playing another con", said Dubo. It's OK to - it's a very good quote, it's a very interesting quote, and I know it. I saw it. I saw what - and I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it's Mussolini or somebody else? He says, "He built up a following within the Ku Klux Klan and he came to this area in Palm Harbor not far from here during a number of times in the 1980s to try to organize and expand his organization to bring in new members".

Did Donald Trump's KKK reaction change your opinion on him?
Trump blamed the remarks on miscommunication on a "lousy earpiece", and he later tweeted that he disavowed the support of Duke. I mean, I don't know - did he endorse me or what's going on? If that's the case, then it is time for the party to unify.

"They like the overall momentum of his rallies and his campaign", Ms Pendergraft said.

"You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about", Trump said. He said he didn't know anything about it and curtly said: "All right, I disavow, ok?"

OH governor and fellow presidential candidate John Kasich disavowed White supremacists on CNN Monday when asked about Trump's response.

Trump endorsed Romney in 2012. Jeff Sessions, one of the most strident opponents of immigration reform. Stern, the son of Holocaust survivors, said he and Trump have discussed at length the "need to stand up against racism and intolerance". "And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about". "I could hardly hear what [Tapper was] saying".

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio had some choice words to share on Trump's CNN appearance, and his unwillingness to distance himself from Duke.

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And, up until this weekend, Trump was doing well for himself spewing white nationalist talking points to the slack-jawed.

"Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten", Haley joked with the crowd. "How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?" he said.

"I am an accountant: I can tell you there is no audit that precludes you from showing your tax returns". But writing in USA Today in January, he said the excitement for Trump among voters comes from more than his "ability to give the most interesting interviews or speeches".

"Let me tell why that curled my skin".

"There aren't enough judges in the world to hear all those cases".

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"It is a racist hate group from the left, and that counts", Lord said.