Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV), who is running for the Senate seat vacated by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), still will not say whether he will vote for Donald Trump, but said Tuesday that Trump is qualified to be president.
Heck pulled his endorsement of Trump following the release of a 2005 tape on which Trump can be heard boasting about grabbing and kissing women without permission. Even as some Republican lawmakers who reversed their Trump endorsements have now said they will vote for the Republican nominee, Heck has still declined to reveal who he will vote for on Election day.
“Well, I can tell you I’m not voting for Hillary Clinton,” Heck told Las Vegas television station KSNV Tuesday. “We still have six days before I walk into the booth. On November 8th, I’ll have a decision.”
But the Republican congressman also acknowledged that Republican primary voters selected Trump and said that the Republican nominee will surround himself with good military advisers.
When asked if Trump is qualified to be president, Heck said, “Well, according to our Constitution he is.”
“I think he won our nomination through a very intensive primary process and caucus process, and the Republican voters decided that they wanted him as their nominee. So, I think if you meet the Constitutional qualifications and you’re selected by the Republican Party, then you’re qualified to be President,” he added when pressed further.
Heck, an Army brigadier general, was also asked if he is comfortable with Trump being commander-in-chief.
“I think whomever the next commander-in-chief is, they’re going to need to surround themselves with military leaders that will provide them with the expert advice that they need to keep the country safe and make sure our men and women in uniform have the tools and the resources they need to do the jobs we asked them to do,” he replied. “I think that Donald will do that. He certainly has a lot of military leaders that have signed on as his advisors.”
Here’s a simpler question for Mr. Hand in the Womb candidate:
Would Trump qualify as a “person” under your proposed Personhood law?
Advisers? Trump doesn’t need any stinking advisers–he knows more than the generals!
Heck didn’t actually say Trump is qualified in the sense that most people would consider a person to be qualified to be President: knowledge, experience, intelligence, temperament, etc. He was very careful to say Trump meets the Constitutional qualifications, which are fairly minimal. Article II Section 1 qualifications for President:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
From wiki:
Yet another example of experience in one field not carrying over to another field.
More cowardice from a Republican; it’s getting boring. Let’s not be swayed by a few polls and an irrelevant FBI report; defeat HO next Tuesday!