Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus said Tuesday he doesn’t “agree” with frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposed plan to bar Muslims from entering the U.S., but stopped short of a full condemnation of the real estate mogul’s remarks.
“I don’t agree,” Priebus said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.”
When pressed on how Trump’s widely criticized remarks could affect the Republicans’ 2016 race, Priebus responded, “that’s as far as I’m going to go.”
The RNC chair has called Trump’s candidacy a “net positive” for the national party, saying Trump has “done a good job of getting [the] message out.”
This story has been updated.
If “the message” is that the Republican Party is the party of angry racists, then Trump has done “a good job of getting the message out.”
The RNC is behaving like a beaten spouse.
Trump has “done a good job of getting [the] message out.”
The RNC chair has called Trump’s candidacy a “net positive” for the national party, saying Trump has “done a good job of getting [the] message out.”…The message being that the GOP is a hateful, raciest, cowardly party…Thank you Mr. Chairman for clearing that up of us…
Stuck between dog crap and elephant dung.