Hanna said he disagreed with Clinton on many issues, but was apparently left without a choice.
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Trump also said that Ghazala Khan, who stood by her husband during his DNC speech, “had nothing to say”, adding, “Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me”.
Dadey said, “It’s shameful that Congressman Richard Hanna has today announced his intention to vote for Hillary Clinton as our next President of the United States, but it’s not at all surprising”.
The former aide bashed Trump after his verbal attack of the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier.
On Monday, Trump questioned whether the November election would be fair.
Hanna, who announced plans to retire at the end of his current term, is known for breaking with most members of his party on issues such as abortion and climate change.
Hanna’s refusal to back the GOP nominee align him, however, with other critics of Trump on Capitol Hill, including members of the GOP elite, such as Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
Senator McCain, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said in a strongly worded statement that Trump did not have “unfettered licence to defame the best among us”.
Hanna doesn’t agree with all of Clinton’s views, yet he still believes in her and has hope that she will be a great leader.
A spokeswoman for Donald Trump has blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 killing of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan in Iraq – even though the death occurred more than four years before Obama became president. “But she stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime”, wrote Hanna.
“For me, it is not enough to simply denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”, Hanna wrote in an op-ed for Syracuse.com published Tuesday. “I don’t know if you’ve seen the warning charts, but we have many, many bridges that are in danger of falling”.
Hanna, however, has little to lose politically, since he is not running for re-election.
DNC email leaks lead to resignation: The CEO of the Democratic National Committee, Amy Dacey, has resigned in the wake of the organization’s email hack and apparent collusion with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to three Democratic strategists familiar with her decision, reports the Associated Press.
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Bradshaw was one of the five senior Republican strategists tasked with identifying the party’s shortcomings and recommending ways it could win the White House after its losing 2012 presidential campaign.
