Former Pa. Governor Tom Ridge: I’m Not Voting Republican This Year
You get one guess as to why.
BY DAN MCQUADE | MAY 17, 2016 AT 11:26 AM
Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge has voted Republican every four years since his 18th birthday. He says that streak will end in 2016.
In an opinion piece published under Ridge’s name in U.S. News and World Report today, Ridge says he cannot vote for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
“My disregard for Donald Trump has been well documented by multiple media outlets over the last several months, so I won’t belabor it yet again,” Ridge writes. “Suffice to say that I am disappointed that he is our party’s nominee. With a bumper-sticker approach to policy, his bombastic tone reflects the traits of a bully, not an American president and statesman. If he cannot unite Republicans, how can he unite America? I simply cannot endorse him.”
Ridge is sticking to his word. In December he told reporters there was “not a chance” he would support Trump if he were to win the Republican nomination. He also called him an “embarrassment” to the party, and filed a different report bashing Trump in April in Politico Magazine.
Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/05/17/tom-ridge-donald-trump/#2zFMqP0bciXMBf4A.99
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