WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times EDT):
9:35 a.m.
Donald Trump’s most visible supporters are insisting that “birtherism” is no longer an issue for the Republican presidential nominee.
That’s what vice presidential running mate Mike Pence, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others are saying on Sunday news shows. They said Trump’s comments Friday acknowledging that President Barack Obama was born in the United States cancels out Trump’s five years of suggesting otherwise. The surrogates also insisted that a confidant of Hillary Clinton’s started peddling the theory that Obama was born in Kenya, that Trump has been a victim of unfair media coverage over the issue and that Americans don’t care about the issue, anyway.
Trump on Friday falsely claimed that Clinton had started the birther discussion.