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Elections
The Trump Effect: 5 Republicans Who Will Be Voting for Clinton
The 2016 campaign season has revealed divisions across America, both cultural and political. Donald Trump fired up crops of people who feel like they’ve been lost and forgotten about in Washington. But it’s not just your average Joe who feels that way. One current Republican Congressman has endorsed Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, a former Senator has done the same, and a handful of prominent Republican aides and advisors are also #WithHer. 2016 is a highly irregular instance–Republicans are embracing the torchbearer of the Democrats, and there are rumblings that more are prepared to do the same as the days tick toward November. Here are five influential Republicans who have already said they’ll probably be voting for Hillary:
Hanna, a representative from New York, became the first sitting–and so far, the only–Congressman to not only reject Trump, but also say he’d be voting for Clinton. “I do not expect perfection, but I do require more than the embodiment of at least a short list of the seven deadly sins,” Hanna wrote in an op-ed published on the Syracuse’s website on Tuesday.
Questioning his party’s ability to nominate an “electable” president, Hanna said he finds Trump “deeply flawed in endless ways,” citing the billionaire’s recent spat with the parents of a Muslim soldier who died fighting for America in Iraq. Hanna noted the ideological differences between himself and Clinton, but said, “I will vote for Mrs. Clinton,” adding: “I will be hopeful and resolute in my belief that being a good American who loves his country is far more important than parties or winning and losing.”
Rep. Richard Hanna has become the first GOP congressman to cross party lines & say he’ll vote for @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/WIzAjVLGUu
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) August 3, 2016
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