Sen. Tim Kaine Timothy (Tim) Michael KaineTrump meets with potential Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett at White House Names to watch as Trump picks Ginsburg replacement on Supreme Court Barrett seen as a front-runner for Trump Supreme Court pick MORE (D-Va.) is defending his running mate, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE, for her “basket of deplorables” comment, suggesting that Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE is “chumming around” with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

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Speaking at a rally on Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Mich., Kaine said that Clinton “advanced the notion that if you’re chumming around with the head of the Ku Klux Klan … that’s deplorable. You gotta call that out.

“If you’re attacking immigrants, that’s deplorable. If you’re attacking LGBT Americans, that’s deplorable. If you’re attacking people because they’re Muslims, that’s deplorable.”

Trump in March disavowed the endorsement of Duke, who is running for a Senate seat in Louisiana, after dodging questions about the white nationalist in an interview days earlier.

But Trump's running mate, Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceGardner signals support for taking up Supreme Court nominee this year Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll GOP brushes back charges of hypocrisy in Supreme Court fight MORE, has declined twice this week to say whether he thinks Duke is “deplorable,” saying he doesn’t want to “validate” Clinton’s language. The Indiana governor said in both instances, however, that he and Trump do not want Duke's support.

— This report was updated at 1:52 p.m.