The man Donald Trump described as “my African-American’’ during a California rally insisted Saturday that he was flattered — and that the presumptive GOP presidential candidate is not a racist.
“It’s a compliment to me,” Gregory Cheadle, a Republican candidate in California’s first congressional district, told CBS News in a phone interview Saturday.
Trump had spotted Cheadle at a California rally and said, “Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him. Are you the greatest? You know what I’m talking about, OK.’’
Cheadle, a Republican candidate for Congress, said, “I’m running in a district that’s about 90 percent white. If I wanted to find racism, I could.’’