In response to questions on the comments, and whether Trump was planning to publicly denounce them, Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, “Due to President Trump’s plans to cut taxes, end inflation, and stop the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border, he has more support from the Hispanic American community than any Republican in recent history.”

News outlets need to stop giving non-responses space in their stories. The PR people don’t answer questions because they can just say whatever pro-candidate message they want and the journalists will print it. Say they gave a response that didn’t address the subject and move on, don’t promote their alternate messaging.