By PoliPundit ~ December 9th, 2002 @ 11:35 pm
Trent Lott has clarified the tenor of his remarks and even Tom Daschle understands the context:
One Democrat, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, defended Lott on Monday, saying he had spoken with Lott and had accepted Lott’s explanation that he hadn’t meant for the remarks to be interpreted as they were.“There are a lot of times when he and I go to the microphone and would like to say things we meant to say differently, and I’m sure this was one of those cases for him, as well,” Daschle said.
That should be the end of the matter. Unless Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want to make hay out of it, in which case it will actually benefit Republicans.
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