Chaffetz Says He’ll Vote For Trump After Pulling Endorsement

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Chaffetz, himself a candidate for the speaker's post, said he'd back... Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Chaffetz, himself a candidate for the speaker's post, said he'd back Ryan should he seek the job, adding, "I would hope that he would do it." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MORE LESS
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on Wednesday joined the ranks of a handful of Republican lawmakers who pulled their endorsements of Donald Trump but who later said they would still vote for the Republican nominee.

Chaffetz had said he could no longer endorse Trump following the release of a 2005 tape on which Trump can be heard bragging about grabbing and kissing women without their permission.

“I’m out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. It is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine,” Chaffetz said on Utah’s Fox 13 News shortly after the tape was made public.

He’s not the only lawmaker walking the line between voting for Trump and not endorsing him. Several other Republican lawmakers have revealed they will vote for Trump despite calling on him to drop out of the race after the 2005 tape was made public.

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  1. semantics… won’t endorse him except by giving him my vote and saying it out loud…

  2. Watch out straddling that fence, you’ll slip and crush your boys.

  3. Good luck with that talk with your teenage daughter you were so concerned about two weeks ago, hypocrite. Voting for a serial sex abuser should put you in solid with her. Maybe you can also square your preemptive plan for spending your entire next term investigating Madame President with your official oath.

  4. lol… not likely… you have to have a pair to hurt a pair…

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