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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns at a rally in Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday. "Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in whatsoever form," the entrada said in a statement Tuesday evening. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns at a rally in Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday. "Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any grade," the campaign said in a statement Tuesday evening.

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Newspaper endorsements take been few and far betwixt for Donald Trump this twelvemonth. Several traditionally conservative papers similar The Dallas Morning News and The Cincinnati Enquirer endorsed Hillary Clinton or Libertarian Gary Johnson this year. Others declined to endorse a candidate at all.

Trump'southward latest newspaper endorsement, though, is something his campaign is making it very clear information technology does not desire: The Crusader, a newspaper affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, and that brands itself as "the premier vocalisation of the white resistance."

"While Trump wants to make America bang-up over again, we have to ask ourselves, 'What made America bang-up in the first identify?'" the endorsement reads, according to the Washington Post. "The short respond to that is simple. America was great not because of what our forefathers did — simply because of who our forefathers were. America was founded equally a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Commonwealth it became dandy."

Trump'south campaign issued a statement to news outlets reading, "Mr. Trump and the entrada denounces detest in any grade. This publication is repulsive and their views practise not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign."

Simply the back up of racists and white nationalists has been a campaign-long problem for Trump. Quondam KKK leader David Knuckles has repeatedly and enthusiastically backed the Republican nominee and has even launched a long shot bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.

"Every bit a United States senator, nobody will be more supportive of his legislative agenda, his Supreme Court agenda, than I will," Duke told NPR before this year.

When Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep asked Knuckles whether he idea "Trump voters are your voters," Duke replied, "Well of grade they are. Because I represent the ideas of preserving this country and the heritage of this state, and I think Trump represents that likewise."

Trump and his campaign have repeatedly disavowed Duke and his support. Simply during the Republican main, Trump generated a wave of negative headlines for non immediately doing and so when asked by CNN'southward Jake Tapper.

"Would you just say unequivocally yous condemn them and you don't want their support? " Tapper asked.

"I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking well-nigh," Trump responded.

The candidate later blamed the exchange on a faulty earpiece, and has repeatedly — and at times exasperatedly — disavowed Knuckles since and so.

Nonetheless, there's no question his candidacy has energized white nationalists, both within the online "alt-correct" customs and throughout the land.

A neo-Nazi leader made headlines on Wednesday for telling Pol he is organizing voter suppression operations in Philadelphia on Election Day.

These plans, co-ordinate to the outlet, include using hidden cameras to monitor the polls and "handing out liquor and marijuana in the city's 'ghetto' in order to keep people from showing up at the polls." (Experts who monitor groups similar this tell Politico they're skeptical these plans will really be carried out.)

But several different right-wing groups, motivated by Trump's repeated concerns about a "rigged" election and urban voter fraud, are organizing their own vigilante poll-monitoring operations for side by side week. According to NPR's Pam Fessler, ane militia group called the Oath Keepers "has appealed to its members, mostly former war machine and constabulary, to become underground at polling sites and collect intelligence about possible fraud."

"In an online video," Fessler reports, "the group's president, Stewart Rhodes, asked supporters 'to exit as part of our telephone call to action, to go and chase downwards, await for vote fraud and voter intimidation and certificate it, to practice the best we can to end it this election.'"

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500352353/kkk-paper-endorses-trump-campaign-calls-outlet-repulsive