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”. Now, apparently, she has.
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Meg Whitman called Trump a “demagogue”, and said that he had “undermined the fabric of our national character”.
Clinton herself asked Whitman for her support, the businesswoman told the Times, which was the first to report the endorsement. Maybe they just don’t want a president who is so obsessed with nuclear weapons.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race and endorsed Mr Trump, said on Tuesday (local time) Mr Trump’s criticisms of the Khans were “inappropriate”. By contrast, CNN reported that Whitman said Clinton would provide “the kind of stable and aspirational leadership” that America needs. And Clinton upheld teachers’ work in the face of Trump’s assertion that “I alone can fix it” (referring to the myriad problems he said the country has).
Whitman, who says she’s not switching political parties, has long supported Republican agendas.
Whitman is the latest in a string of Silicon Valley bosses to speak out against Trump after over 100 industry leaders pledged support to Clinton in an open letter last month.
Pakistani immigrant Khizr Khan galvanized the Democratic National Convention with a tribute to his dead son in which he rebuked the Republican nominee for having “sacrificed nothing” for the country.
At the end of her statement Whitman said other Republicans ought to do the same: “I urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November”.
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In June, Whitman had compared Trump at a closed-door summit to Mussolini and Hitler and warned Republicans that compromising on some conservative principles to support Trump now might lead to bigger compromises in future years.
