The Latest: Pence again refuses to call Duke 'deplorable'

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Published September 13, 2016 3:00PM (EDT)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):

11 a.m.

Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence is standing by his refusal to describe white supremacist David Duke as "deplorable."

Pence was asked at a news conference Tuesday with House Republican leaders whether he wanted to amend his statement from an interview Monday in which he denounced Duke, but declined to call him "deplorable." Hillary Clinton has used the term "basket of deplorables" to describe half of Trump's supporters.

Pence said he was "not going to validate the language Hillary Clinton used to describe the American people." He called the issue a distraction.

Pence repeated his repudiation of Duke and said "I'm not in the name-calling business."

Clinton tweeted on Monday: "If you won't say the KKK is deplorable, you have no business running the country."

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8:45 a.m.

Donald Trump is rolling out proposals to make child care more affordable for working families.

At a speech in a Philadelphia suburb Tuesday, the Republican nominee will call for guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave. He will also lay out plans to create new "Dependent Care Savings Accounts" that would allow families to set aside money to look after their children or elderly parents.

And Trump plans to provide details of his plan to allow parents to deduct child-care spending from their taxes.

Trump's daughter, Ivanka, is expected to introduce her father. She used her Republican National Convention speech to talk about child care issues, though her father has barely mentioned it on the campaign trail.

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3:15 a.m.

When Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia late last week, she informed a handful of her closest advisers, but pressed on with a busy campaign schedule and did not inform the public that she was sick.

Clinton said: "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal."

Her first comments about her health condition came in a CNN interview late Monday, a day after a dizzy spell caught on video forced her to disclose the illness and cancel a West Coast campaign trip.

The incident reinforced Clinton's reputation as a public figure with a predisposition for privacy. While her top campaign aides conceded they were too slow in providing the public with information about Clinton's condition, it was unclear how quickly they themselves had been informed.


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