A new ad from a super PAC backing Marco Rubio expresses stupefaction that Donald Trump is a serious presidential candidate, following the New York businessman’s KKK blunder.
The spot begins with a clip of CNN’s Jake Tapper noting that “I asked Donald Trump three times if he would disavow the support of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Well I have to look at the group,” the ad shows Trump saying during his Sunday morning interview with Tapper. That particular sentence was in response to a line of questions that Tapper asked Trump about David Duke and white supremacists, which ended with this inquiry: “[T]here are these groups and individuals endorsing you, would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and you don’t want their support?”
The candidate didn’t distance himself even after Tapper mentioned the Ku Klux Klan specifically on two occasions.
“Trump refuses to denounce the KKK. Think about that … for president?” the ad’s narrator asks in a befuddled tone.
Trump said Monday morning that a “very bad ear piece” was responsible for the confusion from his interview with Tapper.
Rubio addressed that excuse during a Monday rally: “I don’t care how bad the earpiece is, Ku Klux Klan comes through pretty clearly.”
