GOP Rep. Says He Won’t Endorse Trump: ‘The Train Is Off The Track’

Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, speaks with media at Cafe Gulistan in Harbert, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. Upton met with Ibrahim Parlak to discuss ongoing efforts to keep Ibrahim in his Harbert home. Parl... Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, speaks with media at Cafe Gulistan in Harbert, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. Upton met with Ibrahim Parlak to discuss ongoing efforts to keep Ibrahim in his Harbert home. Parlak, a southwestern Michigan cafe owner who the U.S. government, says hid his ties to a terrorist organization, has been granted a 90-day extension of a deferral that has kept him from being deported. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT MORE LESS
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Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) on Tuesday said that he will not endorse Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.

“I’m going to stay in my lane,” he told Michigan radio program WHTC Morning News.” “There’s a lot of things that folks are not happy about with either of these two candidates. We’re running our own race, and don’t look for me to endorse anyone in this race, probably the rest of the year.”

When asked whether Trump could win Michigan in the general election, Upton said it was possible but said Trump’s campaign has gone “off the track.”

“We’ve got a long ways to go, but it seems to a lot of us that the train is off the track,” he said. “We’ll see if he’s able to put it back on the track, I don’t know, but not a lot of happy campers in terms of how this race is proceeding so far.”

When asked about Trump in May, a spokesman for Upton told the Detroit News that the congressman “has never had a conversation or even met with Donald Trump.”

H/t Detroit News

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  1. Lots of 19th century transportation analogies for Trump today.

  2. There is a track?

  3. “Not a lot of happy campers in terms of how this race is proceeding so far.”

    Democrats seem happy enough.

  4. Trumpty Dumpty untracked his train,
    Trumpty Dumpty—no, “brain” is too easy,
    All of the campers and all of their friends all the King’s men (duh),
    Shit—I’ve got stuff to do. Gotta get some e-mails out and take my dad to the doctor’s. Can anyone take over?

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