A combination photo shows US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) and Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) in Los Angeles, California on May 5, 2016 and in Eugene, Oregon, US on May 6, 2016 respectively.
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Local Republican leaders agree Hanna’s decision isn’t a surprise, but are much more critical of the retiring Congressman.
Hanna, a three-term Republican Congressman from Trump’s home State of NY, in an interview to the same daily said he could never support Trump.
“The question I think that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?”
On Tuesday, retiring GOP Rep. Richard Hanna of NY became the first sitting Republican member of Congress to publicly announce he would be supporting Mrs. Clinton.
“Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American”, Pence said in a statement Sunday.
Richard Hanna – US representative from NY – had long said he would not support Mr Trump in the general election.
“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 his op-ed. “I was stunned by the callousness of his comments”, Mr Hanna said.
“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 said of Trump.
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Hanna previously indicated that he would never support Donald Trump but suggested that the Republican presidential nominee’s attacks on the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier crossed a line. Humayun Khan, the Muslim soldier who died heroically fighting for the U.S.in Iraq (and perhaps also from Trump’s joke about Russian Federation finding Clinton’s deleted emails). He closed by telling Republicans that while they may disagree with his choice to vote for Secretary Clinton, that they could “live to win or lose another day with a real candidate”. “Not bumper sticker slogans that pander to our disappointment, fear and hate”, he added.
