Carmona Apologizes For Joke To Male Moderator About Candy Crowley

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Democratic candidate Richard Carmona apologized on Friday for a joke he made the day before at a debate in the Arizona Senate race in which he called the male moderator “prettier” than Candy Crowley, the female journalist who moderated a presidential debate earlier in the week.

Carmona told Politico in a statement: “I tried to tell a joke to lighten the mood in a debate. I shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry.”

Here is video of the joke, via BuzzFeed:

Latest Livewire
Comments
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Associate Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: