Watch Kris Kobach Say He Might Vote for Trump Even If Trump Says, “I Am a Racist”

Kris Kobach: No, he didn’t pick a race battle. He picked a battle, and then the left, and you, choose to characterize it as a race battle. It’s not about race.

Chris Cuomo: What do you want me to do when he makes a racist comment? I call him a demagogue, because I don’t want to get into the business of what he thinks he is. Because in our political culture, if he says, “I’m not a racist,” then it gives guys like you cover to defend him. But let me ask you something: If the president said, “I am a racist. That’s why I said it,” what would you do?

Uh, then I would not defend him, because there’s no excuse for racism in America, period.

Really?

Really.

Would you still support him as president?

Um, I don’t know. That would be a really tough question.

You have to think about it? You have to think about whether or not you would support a racist?

If he said, if he said, if he said, if he says it’s …

Really?

I’d have to know who was running against him.

A racist?

Look, he—

An admitted racist, you’d have to know more?

If he said he was a racist, probably not. Of course not. I mean, you’re making…

Kris, come on, man. It can’t be that partisan.

Oh, come on, you’d have to—these—you’re—these are ridiculous hypotheticals. Because the people running against him right now—

It’s ridiculous that it took you that long to answer it!

No. Come on. He is not a racist—he’s

You’re running for Senate, and you’ve gotta take a pause whether or not if he said he was a racist you’d still support him? Come on, brother. I hope it’s a satellite delay.

No, no no no, I’m taking a pause considering your hypothetical. Your hypothetical doesn’t even make sense.

How so?

Because the President has not said anything racist.

I know.

The President would not say, “Oh, by the way, everybody, I’m an admitted racist.”

Well, he—hold on, hold on, wait. I take back what I just said. He has said many racist things. He has never said he is a racist. He says, “I am the least racist.” Which by the way isn’t saying that he’s not a racist, it’s saying he’s the least amount of racist that anyone that Don Lemon had ever met.

Look, okay. Let’s go to a—let’s go another, let’s go on to another thing…

I made the hypothetical for a reason.

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