Ron Nehring, who served as national spokesman for Ted CruzTed CruzMeg Whitman will support Clinton for president NY police commissioner resigning GOP lawmaker to vote for Clinton MORE’s presidential campaign, said he doesn’t agree with Whitman’s endorsement, but noted the “significance of it should not be discounted”.
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Richard Hanna, a three-term lawmaker from upstate NY wrote on Syracuse.com that he would vote for Clinton in November because his party’s candidate, Donald Trump, is “unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”.
Hanna, in an op-ed piece in the Syracuse Post-Standard on Tuesday, said six words that have touched off a firestorm of betrayal and frustration in his own party: “I will vote for Mrs. Clinton”.
Hanna referenced Trump’s recent response to criticism by the Khans, parents of a USA soldier killed in action, as well as his statement that John McCain should not be considered a war hero.
Hanna becomes the first Republican congressman to publicly announce his support for Clinton in the presidential election and to raise the level of his criticism of the GOP candidate, EFE news reported. Trump also said it would be “embarrassing” to lose to her.
For all of the media talk about 2016 being an unconventional outsider election, Hillary Clinton is leading by being competent and qualified in the face of the endless barrage of questionable statements and behavior coming from Donald Trump. A former finance co-chair of Chris Christie’s failed Presidential campaign, she blasted the New Jersey Governor when he endorsed Trump, and told the Times she has not spoken to him since. She touched on the controversy herself on Twitter by writing that she’ll make history by getting Trump elected president. “Look at the comments he’s made about women, about Muslims, about reporters, it’s just repugnant”.
“The Democratic convention appeared to benefit Secretary Clinton more than the Republican convention benefited Mr. Trump”, a poll analysis said.
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Another prominent Republican and business leader has come out strongly against Donald Trump.
