Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Sunday said he’s troubled by David Duke’s continual praise of his running mate, Donald Trump.
“It does really bother me, ” Pence told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “And Donald Trump made it clear repeatedly in this week that not only does he denounce David Duke, but we don’t want the support of people who think like David Duke.”
But Pence kicked the ball back into Hillary Clinton’s court by pointing out that the father of the Orlando nightclub terrorist attended a rally and expressed his support for the Democratic nominee. “The fact that an individual, a contemptible individual like that supports my running mate is no more relevant than the fact that the father of a man who killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida, was cheering Hillary Clinton at one of her rallies,” he said.
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