“When their own conscience is seared by some statement that Trump has made, I have encouraged them to be direct and also, in a timely manner, repudiate what he said”, Rigell told the Times.
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Rigell is retiring at the end of this term after six years in office.
Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Richard Hanna, has said he’ll vote for Hillary Clinton, the newspaper reported.
Jeb Bush’s top advisor Sally Bradshaw told CNN she would be leaving the Republican Party over Trump and will vote for Clinton in Florida if the race is close. Knowing that, Congressman Rigell resigned from the Virginia Beach Republican Party.
“Because Scott refuses to support his party’s current nominee for president, the local committee was expected to revoke Congressman Rigell’s membership”, Rigell spokesman Esmel Meeks said in an email Monday.
Rep. Adam Kitzinger of IL also said he would not vote for Trump, although he would not say which candidate he will support instead.
“We don’t take this lightly and wish him well”, she said. On the bright side though, it looks like the Johnson-Weld ticket will be on the ballot in nearly all 50 states. To qualify for a series of three nationally televised debates, Johnson needs to poll at 15 percent in select national polls.
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Rigell announced his endorsement of Johnson in an interview Friday with The New York Times. He believes that, were he to be able to stand up to both candidates in the debate, winning the election as a third party candidate could be a real possibility. William Weld, have been lobbying Republicans turned off by Trump’s brash brand of politics to support their candidacy. “And he will be choosing as many as four Supreme Court nominees”.
