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First House Republican announces he's voting for Hillary Clinton
[Chicago Tribune] New York Rep. Richard Hanna on Tuesday became the first Republican member of Congress to back Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ...
, citing his discomfort with GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump.

"He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country," Hanna said about Trump in an op-ed for Syracuse.com.

Hanna's move came after a day of growing tension between Trump and top House Republican Paul Ryan
...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
, who told donors that a candidate "can't just run a vague platitude election, hopefully win a personality contest, and then try to bring in transformational, once-in-a-generation reform to an unsuspecting country." Ryan refrained from saying Trump's name during his remarks.
A historian friend observed recently that the two main parties are realigning. Who they will come to represent remains to be seen.


Posted by: Fred 2016-08-03
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