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GOP ‘increasingly less capable of nominating a person’
New York Republican Representative Richard Hanna has become the GOP’s first defector in US Congress, vowing to vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton instead of his party’s nominee, Donald Trump.
The three-term member of Congress made the announcement in an editorial published on Syracuse.com on Tuesday.
Despite disagreeing with the former secretary of state, Hanna said he would “vote for Mrs. Clinton” in the 2016 presidential election.
The lawmaker said the former first lady could at least “lead” the country, asserting that his party’s “winning and losing” is trivial with Trump as its nominee.
“I trust she can lead. All Republicans may not like the direction, but they can live to win or lose another day with a real candidate,” he wrote. “Secretary Clinton has issues that depending on where one stands can be viewed as great or small. But she stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime.”
The lawmaker, who is retiring at the end of this Congress, called the New York billionaire a “national embarrassment,” saying, “it’s not simply enough to denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
Hanna’s criticism did not only target Trump but the whole Republican Party, whose policies are alienating American voters, as he said.
“I have long held the belief that the Republican Party is becoming increasingly less capable of nominating a person who is electable as president. The primary process is so geared toward the party’s political base, which ignores the fact that we have largely alienated women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, young voters, and many others in general.”
Hanna is the latest among several senior Republicans who will not vote for Trump in the November vote although he was nominated the at the party’s convention in Cleveland, Ohio, earlier.
According to Syracuse.com, the 65-year-old “has frequently split with his GOP colleagues on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, and is among only 13 Republican House members to acknowledge that humans have contributed to climate change.”
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