Mike Pence Refuses To Call Former KKK Leader "Deplorable"

BuzzFeed - "I'm not in the name-calling business," the Republican vice presidential nominee told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence would not call former KKK leader David Duke "deplorable" in an interview with CNN on Monday. youtube.com Pence and CNN's Wolf Blitzer were discussing comments Hillary Clinton made on Friday, during which the Democratic presidential nominee called half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables" as she pointed to racist, anti-Islam, anti-gay, sexist, or xenophobic opinions. The Trump campaign described Clinton's comments as an attack on American voters and called for her to retract her statement or drop out of the race. On Monday, Blitzer asked Pence about Trump's supporters who are proud of being white nationalists. A number of prominent white nationalists have said publicly they're backing Trump, among them former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. "There are some