Presidential candidate and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Thursday denounced comments made by his fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who recently called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and drug dealers.
“I don’t think Donald Trump’s remarks reflect the Republican party,” Perry said when asked about Trump at a National Press Club event. “I think the Republican party is reflected in people like me. It’s reflected in individuals like Eva Guzman, who is the first Latina that (sic) was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.”
Two other Republican presidential candidates, former New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also condemned Trump’s comments.
Pataki sent a letter to his fellow Republican candidates, calling on them to denounce Trump’s comments.
But Graham indicated that Trump’s comments had nothing to do with the Republican party.
“What Trump said says more about Trump than anybody else,” Graham told reporters on Wednesday at an event in Iowa, according to the Huffington Post.
“I don’t need a letter from Gov. Pataki,” Graham said of Pataki’s letter. “I said from day one, when you label a group of people as rapists and drug dealers, says more about you then it says about them.”
Au contraire Gov Goodhair.
Trump was your useful idiot.
Now he’s ours.
jw1
“I think the Republican party is reflected in people like me.”
“It’s reflected in individuals like Eva Guzman.”
“It’s reflected in people like….um, who’s the third one there? Let’s see…The third person the Republican party is reflected in…me, uh, Eva and, let’s see…the third one. I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
Toooooo late:
‘You go to War with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have.’
And just 10 months ago Perry said this:
Illegal immigrants have committed 3,000 homicides
Q: Your take on the border crisis?
PERRY: What we are concerned about are the 80%-plus of individuals who don’t get talked about enough that are coming into the US illegally, and committing substantial crimes. Since 2008, we have seen 203,000 individuals who have illegally come into Texas, booked into Texas county jails. And these individuals are responsible for over 3,000 homicides and almost 8,000 sexual assaults. That’s the reason that we are deploying 1,000 National Guard troops, to try to make communities safer, and that is my goal.
Q: Governor, a number of fact-checkers have said that that 3,000-homicide figure is wildly off.
PERRY: Let me go back to those numbers. I do stand by them, by the way, but what are the number of homicides that are acceptable to those individuals? How many sexual assaults do we have to have before Washington DC acts to keep our citizens safe? That border is not secure. It’s time for us to secure that border.
Source: CNN SOTU 2014 interview series: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Aug 3, 2014
Trump’s remarks don’t “reflect” the GOP…except for where Trump saw a huge jump in the GOP polls after making said remarks.