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Florida Senate Candidate Doesn't Apologize for Calling Obama an 'Animal'
Source: ABC News
Florida Senate Candidate Doesn't Apologize for Calling Obama an 'Animal'
By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
May 17, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A Florida Republican running to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate is not backing down from his comments referring to President Obama as an "animal."
Carlos Beruff, a real estate developer, criticized Obama's running of the country and military in an address to Florida Republicans caught on video and first reported by The Huffington Post.
“Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he’s an animal, okay, seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military," he said in the speech.
Opponents on both sides of the aisle have since called on Beruff to apologize.
"I think the comment is replete with racial overtones, and he should apologize immediately," Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla, said in a brief interview with ABC News on Capitol Hill today. "I don't think there's any place in modern American politics or political discourse to call the president of the United States an animal."
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By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
May 17, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A Florida Republican running to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate is not backing down from his comments referring to President Obama as an "animal."
Carlos Beruff, a real estate developer, criticized Obama's running of the country and military in an address to Florida Republicans caught on video and first reported by The Huffington Post.
“Unfortunately, for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he’s an animal, okay, seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military," he said in the speech.
Opponents on both sides of the aisle have since called on Beruff to apologize.
"I think the comment is replete with racial overtones, and he should apologize immediately," Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla, said in a brief interview with ABC News on Capitol Hill today. "I don't think there's any place in modern American politics or political discourse to call the president of the United States an animal."
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/florida-senate-candidate-apologize-calling-obama-animal/story?id=39182444
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