CNN's Rick Santorum attacks Chris Wallace for asking Trump to condemn white supremacists
Santorum: “He asked two questions where he was asking the president to do something that he knows the president doesn't like to do”
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Citation From the September 29, 2020, edition of CNN's Debate Night in America
GLORIA BORGER: I just think it's such a low moment in American presidential history that you see an incumbent president of the United States bullying his opponent, behaving in a shameful way, and, you know, declining to say how he felt about white supremacy. I mean, give me a break. And then, and then declining -- he was asked specifically would you tell your supporters not to be violent after this election, and he declined to do that.
So, when I say “frightening," and I don't know whether this is what your friend is referring to, but when you say “frightening", that's what -- that's what I think Americans are looking at and saying, “Wait a minute, this is not the way democracy is supposed to be." And so, I don't see -- support Donald Trump, don't support Donald Trump, whatever -- I don't see how you defend that behavior, Rick. That's what I'm talking about, the behavior that I guess we've come to expect, David, but to me it took -- it was sort of a crescendo tonight.
RICK SANTORUM: I would say the Democrats owe a lot to Chris Wallace, because Chris Wallace asked those two questions, not Joe Biden. It was Chris Wallace who asked those two questions --
BORGER: Yes he did.
SANTORUM: And he asked -- and he asked them for a reason, because he asked two questions where he was asking the president to do something that he knows the president doesn't like to do.
BORGER: Which is?
SANTORUM: Which is, say something bad about people who support him. Right?
BORGER: What, declining violence?
SANTORUM: Well, talking about -- yeah, the white supremacists, number one.