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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:
“Republicans stand at a crossroads,” Paulson, former treasury secretary under George W. Bush, wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post on June 24. “The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism.” Paulson, also the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs, derided Trump the businessman and Trump the prospective president.
He promised to cast his vote for Clinton, “with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment and our place in the world.”
Henry Paulson, President Bush’s Treasury Secretary, endorses Hilary Clinton https://t.co/dxJIbccTbz
— Chris Butler (@cmbutler) July 31, 2016
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