Trumps is in!

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Trump says 'Who's David Duke? Never heard of him.' That's just a lie, but the telling question is why did he want to tell it? He either wanted time to ponder maybe taking Duke's support, or else he wanted people to think he was pondering it.

He wanted to avoid denouncing Duke for fear of alienating Southern racist vote ahead of Super Tuesday. By dragging his feet on his eventual rejection of the endorsement, he actually gained sympathy among these voters who will now think that Trump's backpedaling was forced on him by the "Liberal Media".

It's also worth noting that Duke himself never actually admitted he was endorsing Trump. In fact, he said he wasn't but then admonished voters that a vote for anyone else was a "betrayal of their heritage".