Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is running an "anti-white men campaign" in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination, says conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter.
Rubio, whose parents are from Cuba, said in a
CNN town hall event on Wednesday that he was taunted in his youth over his ethnicity, and told the story of a friend who is black and a police officer who has been pulled over multiple times, though he never is given a ticket.
"What is he supposed to think? He gets pulled over, never gets a ticket," Rubio said.
Rubio said the "overwhelming majority" of police officers are "incredible people," but added that race relations could stand improvement.
Coulter, who is a supporter of Donald Trump and a critic of Rubio on immigration, went after Rubio on Twitter for that, and for saying that a "significant number" of young African-American males feel they are treated differently than the rest of society and, "Whether you agree or not, if a significant percentage of the American family believes that they are being treated differently than everyone else, we have a problem."
Coulter also noted Rubio's endorsements by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are immigrants from India, and Sen. Tim Scott, the state's first black U.S. senator.
Then she noted recent statistics that white middle-aged men are dying in increasing numbers, including through suicide.
A Twitter user questioned whether Coulter had become a white supremacist. Coulter responded:
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