Sen. Susan Collins says she will not vote for Trump, joining growing list of Republicans

[trueblue2007]

Source: Washington Post,

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist Republican, announced Monday that she will not vote for Donald Trump, joining a growing list of GOP officials who have come out against the mogul for president.

Collins writes in a Washington Post op-ed published online Monday night that three incidents led her to conclude that the GOP nominee lacks essential qualifications to be president: his mocking of a disabled reporter, his intense criticism of a U.S.-born federal judge who is Mexican American and, most recently, his attacks against the Muslim American parents of an Army captain who was killed in Iraq.

“My conclusion about Mr. Trump’s unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics,” Collins writes. "Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.”

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Collins becomes the latest in a small but growing group of Republican senators who have said they will not vote for Trump. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has vocally opposed the mogul for months. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina told CNN in May that he did not intend vote for Trump or Clinton.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/08/sen-susan-collins-says-she-will-not-vote-for-trump-joining-growing-list-of-republicans/

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THIS JUST ANNOUNCED ...... ON ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES about 5 minutes ago.

[rjsquirrel]

1. Or about an hour ago

since there are at least 5 threads on if between LBN and GD2016!

[onehandle]

2. She won't vote for Hillary either, proving she's nothing more than a conniving politician.

Can't wait to see her primaried by a crazy. Then we get that seat.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. You want Paul LePage?

Really?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

16. I actually think Collins would vote for Hillary.

She likes her. She is just being cautious about what she says for future re-election purposes (remember a lot of people still dislike Hillary). She might still come out later in support of Hillary too.

Going up against a tea partier is not a guarantee that the dem will win... as someone else mentioned, look at Paul LePage. We need Republicans like Collins to take over the party again. Some say she is all bad like the rest of them, but that is not so. Collins has a history of standing up to her own party and she is not a dirty tea partier. Collins is a sane, moderate, reasonable republican. She has been trying her best to get along and get things done in the toxic environment that we currently have in our legislature.

[pangaia]

3. She can only think of THREE things?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. Does she need to make a exhaustive list?

I think she was trying to keep it short and too the point.

[FairWinds]

4. What took her so long?

[Skittles]

11. they're all acting like it's Trump who's ruining the party

they need to do some real soul-searching

[olddad56]

6. they used the term mogul but didn't they mean mongrel ?

[Bleacher Creature]

7. It means nothing if she doesn't vote for the only person who can stop Trump.

[jpak]

8. and the Maine Internet is losing its mind over it

comment trolls are having a major sad

[lonestarnot]

9. Snort.

[AKing]

10. If she were up for re-election she'd be waffling like everyone else

[mountain grammy]

12. Fuck her. She participated in every obstructing move Republicans made

she's no moderate.

[stuffmatters]

13. Exactly,Mountain Granny, Collins is just as Republican as Donald Trump

And so are the rest of those elected Repubs trying to weasel out of the truth that Trump is no detour from what Republicans have stood for and voted for my entire adult lifetime. The faux decency of Susan Collins has always been especially annoying given her straight party line voting record.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. It is not faux decency.

Collins is not a faker. She really is a decent person.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/susan_collins/300025
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/susan_collins/300025/report-card/2015

[bucolic_frolic]

14. A welcome rejection of Trump

but only reprimanded him on personality

barely a word on policy

I thought it a very weak letter. She never gets beyond
'lifelong Republican'. Doesn't even mention reaching across
the aisle, which she's only done very occasionally.