SCARSDALE, N.Y. (MarketWatch) — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, whose backers have gotten a lift from recent polls, has not entirely rejected support from white supremacists and other extremists, according to a Monday report in the New York Times.

A silhouette of Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul at a Dec. 22 town hall meeting in Dubuque, Iowa. Reuters

“If they want to endorse me, they’re endorsing what I do or say — it has nothing to do with [my] endorsing what they say,” Paul told the Times.