House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) has asked his fellow Republican congressmen to sign onto a letter urging either Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to drop out of the presidential race so that one of them can defeat Donald Trump.

“Through rivalry, disunity, and baseless hatred in our ranks, conservatives are now in danger of splintering our voice and ensuring that the Republican Party’s nominee in the general election is Mr. Trump who is incontrovertibly, the weakest General Election candidate in the Republican field with the strongest probability of allowing Hillary Clinton to become President,” Franks wrote in the letter, according to a copy obtained by the Huffington Post.

In the letter circulated on Wednesday night, Franks suggests that Cruz and Rubio form a unity ticket, with one of them as vice president.

“We believe there is another way. It may be the only way. We call upon all national security, free-market, and pro-family conservatives to boldly rally around the two of you together and ask you both to answer the call of statesmanship and decide between yourselves which shall be the candidate for President and which shall be the candidate for Vice President,” the letter reads. “However, if you fail, it appears a minority of our party will not nominate a candidate for which the majority of our party has said they cannot vote.”

The letter has some kind words for Trump but Franks argued that “we do not know fundamentally where Mr. Trump stands on the issues that matter most to us.”