A Republican lawmaker in Congress became the first to break with his party over the White House campaign on Tuesday, denouncing presidential candidate Donald Trump as unfit to lead and pledging to vote for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
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Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and former CEO of eBay (EBAY), unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California as a Republican in 2010. Now, apparently, she has. Maybe they just don’t want a president who is so obsessed with nuclear weapons.
Richard has served as congressman from NY since 2011 and previously announced plans to retire in December when his third term ends.
Whitman, who says she’s not switching political parties, has long supported Republican agendas.
Hillary Clinton raised $63 million in July for her presidential campaign, her best month yet and a summertime haul that puts her ahead of President Barack Obama’s fundraising at the same point in his re-election race. In a tumultuous world, America needs the kind of stable and aspirational leadership Secretary Clinton can provide.
Pushing back on reports that there is chaos in the Republican, Trump said the party was united.
Hanna, a three-term congressman who is not seeking re-election, writes that “the Republican Party is becoming increasingly less capable of nominating a person who is electable as president” and says that Trump “is unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”.
In March, Hanna said he would never vote for Trump.
“I won’t be voting for Donald Trump”, Whitman said Friday on CNBC.
Other Republicans that usually make sizable donations to Republican presidential candidates have said that they will not donate to Trump, but not many of them have gone the extra step of saying that they will throw their support and donations to Hillary Clinton.
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The 65-year-old congressman from Barneveld, N.Y., near Syracuse, said the last straw was the GOP nominee’s tongue-lashing of Khizr and Ghazala Khan following their speech endorsing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia.
