“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.” -- The Malignant Loser's Vice President, Mike Pence, on Fox "News" yesterday.
(One of the Republican Senators from Pence's home state of Indiana, Sen. Todd Young, has also said he won't support the Malignant Loser, joining another Hoosier, Bush 41 former Vice President Dan Quayle.)
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"If you had told me four years ago that Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie and Adam Kinzinger wouldn’t be supporting the Republican nominee for President I would’ve never believed you." -- Republican political consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid.
Hold our beer, Mike. There's a growing list of prominent Republicans (a.k.a., what's left of "establishment Republicans") refusing to go along with the MAGA train wreck. (Or you can just watch this abbreviated rundown.)
As we've noted before, MAGAts will welcome this as proof that the Malignant Loser is purging his cult of impure elements ("Good riddance, RINOs!"). It does, however, provide a "permission structure" for that sliver of the population that would otherwise vote Republican, or are Republican- leaning "independents," to withhold their votes from the Malignant Loser. In battleground states where winning margins could be slim, it could make all the difference.
