Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) said in a radio interview broadcast Sunday that he was unsure whether he would vote for Donald Trump in the general election, should the GOP frontrunner secure the party’s nomination.
“So, I’m gonna tell you something you rarely hear in elected official say, I don’t know,” Jolly said in the interview on New York’s AM970, first flagged by BuzzFeed News. “I truly don’t know.”
Jolly, who is running in the crowded GOP primary to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), showed some hesitation when asked how he planned to vote in November.
“And here’s why, if you’re asking me in April my position on Donald Trump in November, I don’t know what Donald Trump is going to be standing for in November,” Jolly said. “And so I’m certainly not going to take a position five or six months out. You know when Donald Trump made his call to ban all Muslims, I went to the House floor and called on him to drop out of the race.”
Jolly went on to say he had “strong reservations” about some of Trump’s policies on national security, adding that he also has “strong disagreements” with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on foreign policy.
“So, I think like a lot of Americans, we are gonna to have to begin to spend the summer studying the candidates and decide who’s best for the future of the country,” he said.
Jolly made headlines recently when he called for a hearing and a vote for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. In the radio interview, he said he hoped the Republican Party could find a leader to “alter some of the course” that Obama’s presidency had taken, but he was unsure if Trump was that person.
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Jolly is an idiot, and is already trying to back out of his Senate run, and go for re-election in a newly drawn district that he can’t win in. The GOP senate race in Florida is already turning into a goldmine for political humor.
But…on a much more interesting note.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/florida-poll-hillary-clinton-easily-beats-ted-cruz-or-donald-trump/2275571
Hillary is up 13% already in Florida. Trump’s numbers with women and Hispanics are ungodly, off the charts bad and declining. Hillary wins with women by 23 points and by Hispanics…by 43 points!!
Again, let me emphasize…there is no electoral map for the GOP that doesn’t have Florida. If they can’t win FL, the race is already over.
Well, once Rick Scott throws another 500,000 registered Democrats off the voter rolls that problem will be fixed.
He is being watched much to closely to pull what JEB did in 2000.
But just to give some context to your numbers…
In 2006, registered Hispanics were R +500,000 voters.
Today, registered Hispanics are D + 1,800,000 voters.
So even if he could boot 500,000 voters off the rolls…it doesn’t even get them back to where they were when McCain lost the state…among just Hispanics.
Agreed. I think Democrats should temper their optimism taking into account various voter disenfranchisement and suppression efforts all over the nation. As election day nears and polls reflect a dire situation for Trump and down-ticket candidates I expect the GOP to triple and quadruple their schemes. It’s going to be as bad as we’ve ever seen, because for them to have a chance they’ll have to push the envelope more than ever.