Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), who briefly ran for the Democratic presidential nomination this election cycle, said during a Friday morning interview that he would not vote for Hillary Clinton—and hasn’t ruled out voting for Donald Trump.
“No, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton,” Webb said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
What about the Republican presidential frontrunner?
“I’m not, I’m not sure yet. I don’t know who I’m going to vote for,” he said.
But not Clinton?
“No. Look, this is nothing personal about Hillary Clinton, but the reason I think Donald Trump is getting so much support right now is not because of the racist, you know, et cetera, et cetera, it’s because people are seeing him,” Webb said. “A certain group of people are seeing him as the only one who has the courage to step forward and say we’ve got to clean out the stables of the American governmental system right now.”
Webb said he has one piece of advice for Trump.
“If there were one piece of advice that I would give Donald Trump, if I knew Donald Trump, it would be, you know, instead of just doing these debates, find one of these issues and make a major policy speech so people can see how you’re going to communicate if you’re president,” Webb said.
Webb also pushed back against Trump’s claim that military members will listen to him, even if he orders war crimes.
“There’s a thing called the law, you know, and if you are receiving an illegal order you do not obey. And you have the moral authority not to obey,” he said.
Webb considered an independent bid for the White House after dropping out of the Democratic presidential race last year, but ultimately decided against it.
Watch the clip from MSNBC:
Correction: A previous version of the story identified Webb as a Republican senator from Virginia. He was a Democratic senator. We regret the error.
