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Donald Trump is under fire for blaming a faulty earpiece to explain his initial refusal to disavow the Ku Klux Klan.

"I don't care how bad the earpiece is, Ku Klux Klan comes through pretty clearly," GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio said Monday during a rally in Tennessee.

Trump had been asked about support for his campaign from the KKK and David Duke by CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, with Trump repeatedly saying he "didn't know" about Duke or the white supremacist groups enough to disavow them.

"You say, 'David Duke' to me, I say, 'racist,' immediately," Rubio said in Atlanta at a rally on Monday. "Why wouldn't he condemn the Ku Klux Klan? There is no room in the conservative movement and there is no room in the Republican Party for members of the Ku Klux Klan or racists like David Duke."

On Monday, the Trump said he was unable to hear the question due to a bad earpiece.

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