Former Congressman And Gingrich Ally Won’t Vote For Donald Trump

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Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-MN) told CNBC that he won’t vote for Donald Trump and that nominating the billionaire businessman to be the GOP’s nominee was “a mistake of historic proportions.”

In a candid and unfettered interview, Weber told CNBC that Trump may do irrevocable damage the Republican Party if he wins in November.

“I can’t imagine I’d remain a Republican if he becomes president,” said Weber, now a lobbyist in Washington. “I don’t know how the Republican Party survives if Trump becomes president.”

Weber said that he was confounded by so many of Trump’s policies, from his posture toward trade to his attacks against the family of a fallen Muslim American soldier.

“I think markets would collapse,” he told CNBC in the phone interview, rattling off a series of fears he harbors about Trump’s candidacy including the fact that Trump could leave the country “in shambles.”

Weber has yet to say he would support Hillary Clinton as an alternative, but did openly say he’d cheer on any Republican leader in Congress who publicly rebuked and un-endorsed Trump.

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  1. Weber was one of the mores sensible Republicans when he was in Congress. Which undoubtedly helps to explain why is a former congressman.

  2. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    I hope someone plots the number of defections vs time.

  3. When you start to lose the lobbyists, then you’re really in trouble.

  4. You have to love a guy that can employ an oxymoron with such aplomb.

  5. I’m fantasying an “I am Spartacus” moment. A public gathering of Republicans who stand up one by one and say “I am voting for Hillary.”

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