The CEO of the Florida based-car dealer conglomerate AutoNation said he had left GOP over Republicans’ failure to stop Donald Trump.
“I left the Republican Party last year when they didn’t take on Donald Trump early,” Mike Jackson said Tuesday on CNBC, the Sun Sentinel reported. “I’m now an independent. I’m more in Switzerland.”
Jackson was not optimistic about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s ability to pull out a surprise win in the state.
“The unthinkable is about to happen in the home state of a very popular former governor, Jeb Bush, who is now out of the race,” Jackson said. “A sitting senator who won election with very strong numbers is about to be defeated by Donald Trump for winner take all, 99 delegates.”
He also said Rubio “blundered” his last chance to win the race when he “went to schoolyard gutter tactics against Donald Trump.”
Jackson added that he had donated to Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign, and that he admired the “effectiveness that Governor Kasich has demonstrated.”
“But in today’s environment, I don’t know how much that counts for,” Jackson said.
“I’m now an independent. I’m more in Switzerland. With my money.”
There FIFY.
I love the smell of Republican fratricide in the morning.
That being said, let’s not fool ourselves — on election day, he’ll slink into his local polling station and vote for all the other wingnut lunatic Kochian Republicans up and down the ballot.
Wonder what Rubio’s car dealer sugar daddy Norman Braman will have to say on Wednesday?
The same sitting Senator who told his constituents that he hates his job as their Senator and rarely shows up for it. I can’t imagine why he couldn’t pull ot a "surprise win.’
A republican with a modicum of ethics. Whodda thunk it