Pat Toomey Confident Voters Will Not Link Him To Donald Trump
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey expressed confidence that Donald Trump's antics while running for President will not adversely effect his own re-election campaign.
Toomey told Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT that voters will be able to differentiate between the two races.
"I am very confident that I've got a tough, competitive race that I'm going to win in the end. I'm going to win regardless of how things go at the top of the ticket because Pennsylvania voters are plenty smart enough to distinguish between Donald Trump and Pat Toomey. They are going to distinguish between a presidential race and a Senate race. I have no idea how the presidential is going to turn out. I think it's entirely possible that Donald Trump carries Pennsylvania and it's possible that he loses badly. A wide range of possible outcomes at the presidential level, but in my race, people are going to make a totally separate and distinct decision. I'm confident that we're going to win."
The Senator also addressed what he felt was his need to condemn Trump's attack on a judge hearing a fraud case against Trump University.
"I don't feel and obligation to respond every time Donald Trump says anything but there are sometimes when I think he could venture into a place that really requires a response. I think the case of the Indiana judge is such an example. I've long believed that we judge individuals based on their own individual, personal character capabilities. We're the party and the movement and folks in this country that have rejected the idea of identity politics, the idea that your ethnicity is what determines how you think or how what you do in life. Donald Trump's comments, I thought, were just so far beyond the pale that it required a response."