Plenty of Trump supporters, including other Republican Senate candidates, have come out unequivocally against Mr. Duke. Mr. Trump himself, after some pressure, disavowed him after having first claimed not to know anything about him, though in 2000, Mr. Trump called him a bigot and a Klansman. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyStill, this is one area where the Democrats and the Duke campaign see eye to eye. The police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge clinched his decision to run, because, Mr. Duke said, they clarified the existential threat faced by whites. Mr. Duke asked Mr. Williams to explain to a reporter why his campaign should succeed.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2016 18:11 UTC