Hillary Clinton is blazing through battleground states: North Carolina yesterday, and Colorado today. But her eye is on the spectacle surrounding Donald Trump and winning over skeptical Republican voters.
She’s hoping Meg Whitman, a top G.O.P. fundraiser and H.P. executive will help her do just that. Clinton asked for Whitman’s support a month ago, and Whitman is now saying yes. In a statement, Whitman said, “To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse anger, grievance, xenophobia, and racial division.”
Whitman is urging other Republicans to not only reject Trump, like Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have, but to actually vote for Clinton as well.
Another House Republican is coming out against Trump, saying he can’t support him. Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, who represents Illinois’ 16th District in North Central Illinois says he was hoping to endorse Trump by the end of last week, but Trump’s recent spat with the family of a fallen soldier led to this ultimate decision.
Kinzinger explained, “No matter what the political cost is to me, I’m an American before a Republican. I won’t be silent. He can tweet all he wants, but I have to do this for my country and for my party.”
When asked what he plans to do this November, Kinzinger said he could write in a candidate, or even sit out this election.
