Subject: Even More Republicans and Conservative Columnists Unwilling to Support Trump’s Unpredictable, Risky and Divisive Candidacy
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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:56:01 -0400
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*​Even More Republicans and Conservative Columnists Unwilling to Support
Trump’s Unpredictable, Risky and Divisive Candidacy*

It's been less than one week since Donald Trump became the presumptive
Republican nominee for president, but prominent Republicans and
conservative columnists continue to distance themselves from his candidacy
and his divisive policies. Over the years and throughout this campaign,
Donald Trump has proven himself to be a loose cannon whose hateful language
and dangerous policies will do serious harm to working families and put
America’s security at risk. With so much at stake, even Republicans are
acknowledging that Trump is too big a risk.

Read the growing list
<https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/05/04/conservatives-rebuke-trump-as-he-captures-republican-nomination/>
of Republicans unwilling to support a President Donald Trump and fresh
condemnations of Trump:

*Max Boot, Former Advisor to Marco Rubio
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-republicans-in-exile-20160508-story.html>*:
"Trump is an ignorant demagogue who traffics in racist and misogynistic
slurs and crazy conspiracy theories. ... The risk of Trump winning, however
remote, represents the biggest national security threat that the United
States faces today."

*Ross Douthat*
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/the-conservative-case-against-trump.html>:
"His unfitness starts with basic issues of temperament. It encompasses the
race-baiting, the conspiracy theorizing, the flirtations with violence, and
the pathological lying that have been his campaign-trail stock in trade."

*Jennifer Rubin*
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-may-8-2016-clinton/>:
"But it is really fundamentally an issue of character. When people look at
Donald Trump and they see how he treats women, they see his views on
foreigners, they see his lack of personal self-control, his meanness. Just
this week he was back lying again."

*Rep. Bob Dold [R-IL]
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/natemcdermott/gop-congressman-says-he-wont-vote-for-trump-will-write-in-a>*:
"Dold said, even if Trump walked back his comments on women, Muslims,
Latinos, and POWs, he still would not vote for him."

*Rep. Will Hurd [R-TX]*
<http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/07/hurd-trump-must-respect-minorities-women/84049622/>:
"[Hurd] said that Donald Trump will have to shape up before he gets Hurd’s
support."

*Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey*
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/pat-toomey-i-hope-we-dont-get-to-a-point-where-i-cant-suppor>:
"I hope to get to the point where I can enthusiastically support Donald
Trump. I’m not there right now and I hope we don’t get to a point where I
decide I just can’t support him."

*Former Senator Gordon Humphrey [R-NH]
<http://www.unionleader.com/Discord-as-NH-delegates-vote:-16-attend-meeting-to-vote-on-convention-committee-assignments&source=RSS>*:
"“Unequivocally, I am not supporting Donald Trump. … I think he is a
sociopath.”"

*Former NJ Gov. Christine Todd Whitman*
<http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-guest-writers/opinion-say-no-to-trump-1.1568383>:
"As I have said numerous times before, Donald Trump is simply unfit to be
president. We have all seen his bullying, misogyny and provoking of racial
hatred."

*Rick Wilson, Republican consultant
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-wilson-donald-trump-means-article-1.2628025>:*
"It isn't just that we loathe him personally (though that's easy to do with
his horror-show affect); it's that we reject his core political philosophy
of statism."

*Politico*
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-administration-transition-222944>:
Trump's empty administration: "…a vast number of highly skilled managers
and policy experts, veterans of recent GOP administrations who would
normally be expected to fill key positions for a new White House, are also
vowing to sit out a Donald Trump presidency."

*Jennifer Rubin (again)*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/09/trumps-self-destruction-begins-early/>:
"Truth be told, the character issues with Trump are so enormous
(dishonesty, bigotry, misogyny, lack of impulse control, etc.) that there
are many conservatives who will never accept him. Judging from his conduct
over the past few days, Trump is making it easier for principled
Republicans to reject him.

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For Immediate Release, May 9, 2016
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