Rejected? Democrat Senator Byrd was not just a member of the KKK, he was a local leader of the KKK. And let us be clear. The KKK was not just a group of men that hated African Americans. The KKK sought out, and murdered, hung African American men in the front yard of the their homes, in front of their children.
So forgive us, if we do not accept a politician's late in life, renouncing his leadership of an organization that actively beat and murdered African Americans.
Democratic Party KKK leader Senator Robert Byrd, current President of the USA Democrat Biden, voted to make Byrd the leader of the Senate, 3 times, each time the vote came up, KKK leader Democrat Byrd got Biden's vote.