Rick Santorum: Sure, I’d Accept Caitlyn Jenner’s Endorsement For President

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R), a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said Thursday that he would accept Caitlyn Jenner’s endorsement if offered.

Santorum, on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” discussed Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympian who recently came out as a transgender woman. Rival presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told CNN on Sunday that Caitlyn Jenner was “welcome” in his party.

“If Caitlyn Jenner wanted to endorse me, would I accept the endorsement? The answer is if that’s the way she feels about my candidacy, sure,” Santorum said. “Look, there are all sorts of people in this country of all different positions in life.”

“So, you don’t care?” CNN anchor Erin Burnett said. “A gay man who’s married to a man, transgender, it doesn’t matter to Rick Santorum?”

“Never ask anyone why they’re voting for you because you probably won’t like the answer,” Santorum said. “People vote for you for all sorts of reasons and that’s fine. And I accept whatever reason anybody wants to vote for me whoever they are. Of course I accept their vote.”

“Well, you accept their vote,” Burnett said, “but do you accept them? Do you accept her?”

“My job as a human being is to treat everybody with dignity and respect,” Santorum said. “Period. Stop. Full stop. No qualification to that.”

Watch the video below, from CNN:

h/t The Blaze

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