Ohio Congressman Mike Turner told CBS’ Face The Nation that voters do not care about Republican corruption even though poll after pool shows the country is very upset that Trump, his family, and friends are enriching themselves by using the White House and his bully pulpit.
Host Margaret Brennan showed how poorly Republicans are viewed by new polling data and a failure for Rep. Turner to be endorsed by the Columbus Dispatch, who called them “spineless” to stop obvious corruption and abuse of power.
BRENNAN: Fox had a poll this week showing 6 in 10 respondents were extremely concerned about government corruption. AP had one that said 6 in 10 adults believe Trump is illegally profiting from the presidency, or at least doing something unethical.
Your local paper, the Columbus Dispatch, wrote it could not endorse the Republican Senate candidate because of the abject failure, this is a quote, of Republicans in Congress to stop visible corruption and abuse of power by the Trump administration.
You referred to Republicans as almost entirely spineless.
How do you counter those perceptions? Do you feel you need to?
Turned claimed the Dispatch wasn’t his local paper.
Sure, you do that. Then Turner said people only vote for local candidates and not presidents.
TURNER: And people vote for individual candidates. They don’t vote for a team. They don’t vote for a slate.
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