Jake Tapper couldn’t get a straight answer from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) when he asked him Donald Trump’s recent rally riff about golfer Arnold Palmer’s penis on Sunday’s episode of “State of the Union.”
During a rally in Palmer’s Pennsylvania hometown on Saturday, the former president went on a 10-minute ramble which ended with him praising the PGA legend’s intimate anatomy.
The CNN host reminded Johnson that election day is rapidly approaching and asked if voters really wanted to hear about Palmer’s private parts as the Republican’s closing message.
Johnson skirted Tapper’s question, telling him the real issue is if voters are “better off now” than back when Trump was in office.
“Look at the record of these two candidates,” he said. “This shouldn’t be about personalities. It should be about policy.”
Though the speaker tried to deflect, Tapper pressed on.
“I’m sure that you think that a policy debate would be better than a personality…
