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« Reply #350 on: June 15, 2016, 08:09:50 PM »

Governor of Maryland --- does his decision matter?

Every Republican Governor or other major Republican holding a prominent position, state or federal, that "rejects" trump "matters."
Unless they endorse Clinton and accept an invitation to speak at the DNC, it doesn't really matter. Sitting on the sidelines does nothing because Trump doesn't need them.
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« Reply #351 on: June 15, 2016, 08:16:41 PM »

Can't say I'm surprised, he does want to win reelection in deeply Democratic Maryland two years from now.
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« Reply #352 on: June 15, 2016, 10:25:44 PM »

Governor of Maryland --- does his decision matter?

Every Republican Governor or other major Republican holding a prominent position, state or federal, that "rejects" trump "matters." Makes no difference from which state the Republican is from.
The level of well-known Republicans who are not supporting trump is unprecedented. The norm is that these Republicans either, genuinely like their presidential candidate or at the very least, say nothing negative.
That is not the case in 2016. Actually, it is far from normal. This just shows how much disgust everyone has for clownish trump.


I will say that it is looking like the Democrats who abandoned McGovern in 1972. 
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« Reply #353 on: June 16, 2016, 08:35:15 AM »

A month and a half ago, Joe Scarborough was mocking #NeverTrump, saying it was just 12 people on Twitter, and that Republicans would come to realize that they had to choose between Clinton and Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW10wpyeMtw

Now he's urging Republican politicians to stand up to Trump, and draw lines in the sand like "I won't endorse you until you do X, Y, and Z":

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-scarborough-gop-trump-224355
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« Reply #354 on: June 16, 2016, 11:04:47 AM »
« Edited: June 16, 2016, 11:06:36 AM by Landslide Lyndon »

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/richard-armitage-endorses-clinton-224431

Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party’s presumptive nominee.
Armitage, a retired Navy officer who also served as an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is thought by Clinton aides to be the highest ranking former GOP national security official to openly support Clinton over Trump.

“If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton,” Armitage told POLITICO in a brief interview. “He doesn't appear to be to be a Republican, he doesn't appear to want to learn about issues. So I’m going to vote for Mrs. Clinton.”




I'd like to hear from Mr. Morden too if today's interview of Kasich qualifies him as #NeverTrump.
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« Reply #355 on: June 16, 2016, 11:17:33 AM »

Kasich right now seems like a #ProbablyNotTrump.
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« Reply #356 on: June 16, 2016, 11:39:30 AM »

Fred Upton is #NeverTrump.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/16/upton-endorsing-trump-train-track/85982354/

Republican U.S. Rep. Fred Upton says he is not planning to endorse Donald Trump for president, deepening the divide in Michigan’s GOP congressional delegation about supporting the party’s presumptive nominee.

“There’s a lot of things that folks are not happy about with either of these two candidates,” he said. “We’re running our own race, and don’t look for me to endorse anyone in this race probably the rest of the year.”

Upton, who has served in Congress since 1987, joins other Michigan GOP U.S. Reps. Justin Amash of Cascade Falls, Bill Huizenga of Zeeland and John Moolenaar of Midland in not endorsing Trump.
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« Reply #357 on: June 16, 2016, 01:15:15 PM »

Fred Upton is #NeverTrump.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/16/upton-endorsing-trump-train-track/85982354/


“There’s a lot of things that folks are not happy about with either of these two candidates,” he said. “We’re running our own race, and don’t look for me to endorse anyone in this race probably the rest of the year.”



But he might be willing to endorse next year?
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« Reply #358 on: June 16, 2016, 05:02:48 PM »

A month and a half ago, Joe Scarborough was mocking #NeverTrump, saying it was just 12 people on Twitter, and that Republicans would come to realize that they had to choose between Clinton and Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW10wpyeMtw

Now he's urging Republican politicians to stand up to Trump, and draw lines in the sand like "I won't endorse you until you do X, Y, and Z":

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-scarborough-gop-trump-224355

Isn't it amazing what refusing to go on Morning Joe can accomplish? lol

They also hated Hillary with the burning passion of a thousand suns for months...until she appeared on their show, now they cool.
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« Reply #359 on: June 17, 2016, 01:42:06 AM »

I'd like to hear from Mr. Morden too if today's interview of Kasich qualifies him as #NeverTrump.

What did he say that might qualify him as #NeverTrump?  It sounds like it's same as always from him: He won't support Trump unless he sees changes from Trump:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/john-kasich-joe-scarborough-i-m-not-interested-being-spoiler-n593486

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Eh....sorry to be a stickler on this, but "I won't endorse anyone this year" doesn't quite qualify, IMHO.  I've added him to the list in the OP, but under the category of "staying out of it", along with Bush 41, Bush 43, and Snyder.  #NeverTrump means you're not going to vote for him, and Upton saying that he won't publicly endorse anyone doesn't really tell me how (or if) he's going to vote.
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« Reply #360 on: June 17, 2016, 02:03:38 AM »

So I think the remaining 2016 Republican presidential candidates who haven’t endorsed Trump are Bush, Graham, Kasich, Pataki, Cruz, Fiorina, and Walker.  Bush and Graham have ruled it out, Kasich and Pataki say they won’t do it unless Trump changes, and Cruz and Fiorina pretty much won’t talk about it.  Walker had endorsed him, but has now pulled back the endorsement, and it isn’t clear under what conditions he’d give it back.

Fiorina’s been especially quiet about it, but there’s a new story in the Washington Examiner about how she’ll now be campaigning for Republicans in downballot races (starting with Rand Paul and Pat Toomey), but that she doesn’t plan on doing any stumping for Trump:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fiorina-wont-lift-a-finger-to-help-trump/article/2593918

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« Reply #361 on: June 17, 2016, 05:04:58 AM »

Mark Kirk says he’ll write in David Petraeus.  He also goes farther than any of the other #NeverTrumpers in his criticism of Trump by calling him “racist”:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/mark-kirk-trump-racist-224427

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Some of the others, like Romney, have called Trump “offensive”, and accused him of “targeting groups of people” or other such phrases that imply bigotry.  But Kirk might be the first one to use the r-word.
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« Reply #362 on: June 17, 2016, 05:13:42 AM »

A month and a half ago, Joe Scarborough was mocking #NeverTrump, saying it was just 12 people on Twitter, and that Republicans would come to realize that they had to choose between Clinton and Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW10wpyeMtw

Now he's urging Republican politicians to stand up to Trump, and draw lines in the sand like "I won't endorse you until you do X, Y, and Z":

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-scarborough-gop-trump-224355

Isn't it amazing what refusing to go on Morning Joe can accomplish? lol

They also hated Hillary with the burning passion of a thousand suns for months...until she appeared on their show, now they cool.

I think it's also that the Koch Bros, realizing that Trump is a lost cause, finally sicked their dog Joe on Trump.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2015/01/26/3615661/morning-joe-koch-brothers-awesome/
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« Reply #363 on: June 17, 2016, 05:16:01 AM »


Eh....sorry to be a stickler on this, but "I won't endorse anyone this year" doesn't quite qualify, IMHO.  I've added him to the list in the OP, but under the category of "staying out of it", along with Bush 41, Bush 43, and Snyder.  #NeverTrump means you're not going to vote for him, and Upton saying that he won't publicly endorse anyone doesn't really tell me how (or if) he's going to vote.


Upton didn't just say that he won't endorse. He had harsh words for Trump and his campaign. Maybe he didn't explicitly say that he won't vote for him but that's not the attitude of someone who despite his misgivings would still pull the lever out of party loyalty.

Some of the others, like Romney, have called Trump “offensive”, and accused him of “targeting groups of people” or other such phrases that imply bigotry.  But Kirk might be the first one to use the r-word.


I think Reid Ribble also called Trump a racist.
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« Reply #364 on: June 17, 2016, 05:59:57 AM »


Eh....sorry to be a stickler on this, but "I won't endorse anyone this year" doesn't quite qualify, IMHO.  I've added him to the list in the OP, but under the category of "staying out of it", along with Bush 41, Bush 43, and Snyder.  #NeverTrump means you're not going to vote for him, and Upton saying that he won't publicly endorse anyone doesn't really tell me how (or if) he's going to vote.


Upton didn't just say that he won't endorse. He had harsh words for Trump and his campaign. Maybe he didn't explicitly say that he won't vote for him but that's not the attitude of someone who despite his misgivings would still pull the lever out of party loyalty.

Well, OK, but I'm just going off of what they've publicly said.  I'm assuming that many of the Republicans who've actually endorsed him (maybe even Paul Ryan) aren't actually going to vote for him, since they think he's terrible.  But I have no way of knowing what they're going to do in the voting booth, so I just make the list based on public statements.
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« Reply #365 on: June 18, 2016, 03:21:25 PM »

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20160617/after-45-years-danny-jones-leaves-republican-party

The Mayor of Charleston, West Virginia Danny Jones has left the Republican Party citing the rise of Trump and the State Legislators insistence on "religious freedom" type bills. Jones has said he will vote for Gary Johnson in the fall.
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« Reply #366 on: June 18, 2016, 04:25:59 PM »

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20160617/after-45-years-danny-jones-leaves-republican-party

The Mayor of Charleston, West Virginia Danny Jones has left the Republican Party citing the rise of Trump and the State Legislators insistence on "religious freedom" type bills. Jones has said he will vote for Gary Johnson in the fall.

WV seems like one of the few places this is a bad move politically.

Then again I assume that once WV's realignment is complete, you'll have Democrats in Charleston and maybe the eastern panhandle and Republicans everywhere else.
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« Reply #367 on: June 18, 2016, 05:01:49 PM »

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20160617/after-45-years-danny-jones-leaves-republican-party

The Mayor of Charleston, West Virginia Danny Jones has left the Republican Party citing the rise of Trump and the State Legislators insistence on "religious freedom" type bills. Jones has said he will vote for Gary Johnson in the fall.

WV seems like one of the few places this is a bad move politically.

Then again I assume that once WV's realignment is complete, you'll have Democrats in Charleston and maybe the eastern panhandle and Republicans everywhere else.

Jones is not running for re-election, which is probably why he is being this vocal about his change. He's previously been on the opposing side of West Virginia conservatives at various times.
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« Reply #368 on: June 18, 2016, 05:52:53 PM »

How's talk radio doing?  Are Beck and Levin and those other dopes still screaming about how Trump will be the death of democracy?
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« Reply #369 on: June 19, 2016, 01:58:59 PM »

Add Slade Gorton to the Republicans who won't vote for Trump.

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/pray-for-a-third-party-candidate/
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« Reply #370 on: June 19, 2016, 02:02:22 PM »

It's truly amazing how all the people I have hated for years are the ones who refuse to vote for Trump. Just vile people. I mean, yeah, we have terrible people on our side too like Arpaio, but literally every single #NeverTrumper in public view is a terrible person, perhaps with the exception of Christine Todd Whitman.
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« Reply #371 on: June 19, 2016, 02:19:42 PM »

It's truly amazing how all the people I have hated for years are the ones who refuse to vote for Trump. Just vile people. I mean, yeah, we have terrible people on our side too like Arpaio, but literally every single #NeverTrumper in public view is a terrible person, perhaps with the exception of Christine Todd Whitman.

Mark Kirk really isn't a terrible person, I feel bad for him.
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« Reply #372 on: June 22, 2016, 10:06:13 PM »

Scowcroft endorses Clinton:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/22/brent-scowcroft-hillary-clinton-endorsement/86263096/

I've added him to the list in the OP.

Meanwhile, previously announced #NeverTrumper former Sen. Gordon Humphrey says he's working full time to convince New England delegates to rebel against Trump at the convention:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-delegate-revolt-224634
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« Reply #373 on: June 23, 2016, 07:05:41 AM »

Brent Scowcroft is probably one of the greatest foreign policy minds of the GOP.
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« Reply #374 on: June 24, 2016, 07:45:33 PM »

GW Bush Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson is backing Clinton:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/henry-paulson-hillary-clinton-voting-224793
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