Lindsey Graham Won’t Vote for Trump or Clinton in 2016Politics.com
“Nope. Uh uh. Not gonna do that. Not a chance. No.” -Lindsey Graham albeit slightly alliterated.
Washington (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, says he will not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton for president this year.
Graham says in a statement Friday he “cannot in good conscience support Donald Trump because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as Commander in Chief.”South Carolina’s senior senator also says he will join a growing list of veteran Republicans, including both Presidents Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain and others, now declining to attend the party’s convention this summer in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Romney, Bushes skipping GOP convention, not backing Trump Read More Graham ran his own 2016 campaign for president, and was early to attack Trump in the starkest of terms — telling voters they should tell Trump he should “go to hell.” “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot,” Graham told CNN late last year.
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who faces a tough re-election fight this fall, said on Thursday that he won’t be attending the July Republican convention so that he can avoid the “jamokes” like Donald Trump who are running for president.