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GOP Senator stunned silent by Todd Blanche's 'back the blue' stump speech

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) had to answer for comments made by Attorney General Todd Blanche a week after the GOP senator confirmed him. Cassidy cast the decisive vote to confirm Blanche as Trump's Attorney General and gave a speech where he assured his constituents he was making the right choice despite mixed feelings about confirming Trump's former personal lawyer. But a week later, Cassidy was confronted during an appearance on CNN with a clip of Blanche endorsing Bruce Blakeman , the Republican nominee for governor of New York. Blanche said that Blakeman was "doing everything we need him to do to back the blue." Blanche made the endorsement during a Friday speech in Garden City, New York, where he spoke alongside President Donald Trump. Critics quickly called it out as a violation of the Hatch Act , which prohibits most executive appointees from partisan political activity. CNN anchor Jake Tapper played a clip from the speech for Cassidy to watch. "You had misgivings before you voted

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