Black Republican Senator Tim Scott said President Donald Trump must have misspoken when he refused to condemn any far-right group by name – but blamed antifa groups for unrest – during Tuesday night’s debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden.
US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has labelled President Donald Trump’s failure to call out white supremacist groups “unacceptable”.
McConnell echoed comments made by Tim Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, about Trump’s response to a challenge to condemn white supremacy at Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
“He said it was unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists and so I do so in the strongest possible way,” the Republican leader said.
Earlier on Wednesday Scott said Trump may have “misspoken” in response to the debate question.
Trump turned Tuesday night’s question into an attack on his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who he has accused of condoning violent ‘antifa’ protests and riots amid this summer’s resurgence of the Black Live Matter movement.
“I’m willing to do anything. I want to see peace,” Trump said. “What do you want to call them? Give me a name.”
Biden’s response was that “Antifa’s an idea, not an organization.”
Trump tore into his opponent on Wednesday for failing to say the words “law and order” once during the 90-minute debate.
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