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Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake Says He Won’t Vote for Donald Trump in 2020 - (Throw Up)
Breitbart ^ | April 28, 2020 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 04/28/2020 5:28:08 PM PDT by re_tail20

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) says he will not be casting his vote for President Donald Trump in 2020, citing concerns he had with the president before the 2016 campaign.

“I just couldn’t support [Trump] long before he started to run. The birtherism thing was just too much for me. And then it piled on,” Flake, a vocal critic of Trump, told the Washington Post.

Flake also warned that a second Trump term could deter younger voters from the GOP, especially on issues concerning the environment and immigration.

“So for young people who’ve grown up around minorities or had a different experience than a lot of us in my generation, they don’t harbor, I think, some of the prejudices that people in my generation do,” Flake said.

Flake added that a Trump defeat in November would benefit the Republican Party and conservatism in the long run.

“This won’t be the first time I’ve voted for a Democrat — though not for president. Last time I voted for a third-party candidate,” he said. “But I will not vote for Donald Trump.”

Flake also predicted the GOP would change once Trump ends his time in the Oval Office.

“The pendulum swings when one party takes it too far,” he said. “We’ll be ourselves again.”

Flake served in the Senate between 2013 and 2019 and served six terms in the House before that.

As a senator, he criticized Trump on a variety of issues, including his negative comments on his colleague, former Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2015.

Politico reported that Flake was also “shocked” to discover that his friend and former House colleague Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) was selected to be Trump’s running mate...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: backstabber; cult; fakeconservative; flake; getlostjerk; gopestablishment; jeffflake; liberalagenda; mccain; miltromley; notnews; notoldguard; oldguard; rino; snowflake; tds; washedup
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To: re_tail20

Continuing to live up to what everyone knows he is...

One term nobody


21 posted on 04/28/2020 5:40:09 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: re_tail20

Oh damn it and here I thought Flake was a Trump vote for sure/sarc


22 posted on 04/28/2020 5:40:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 20yearvet

He went crying into an elevator when a screeching woman wouldn’t stop yelling at him, that’s when I realized what an absolute fruit cake Flake is


23 posted on 04/28/2020 5:41:07 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: re_tail20

The fact is that the left ruthlessly silenced anyone who questioned the strange circumstances of Obama’s birth. The vicious anti birther campaign pushed the subject from polite conversation. Birthers became dirty racists. To associate with a birther was akin to joining the KKK. All this extreme effort to quash birtherism makes me confidant that I’m right being a birther and that Obama was a Manchurian Candidate planted to destroy America from within. He almost pulled it off.


24 posted on 04/28/2020 5:41:39 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: re_tail20

Gee...I guess we can save the stamp.


25 posted on 04/28/2020 5:41:44 PM PDT by motherdearth ("Mercy Without Justice Is the Mother of Dissolution; Justice Without Mercy Is Cruelty")
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To: re_tail20

What is Flake up to these days..just kidding ..i don’t care.


26 posted on 04/28/2020 5:42:25 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: re_tail20

Flakes, “concern” young people will not vote for President Trump is a strawman argument. Many did. Many more will again. My children all voted for President Trump last time and will do so again. They are Millenials. Many of their friends did as well and will do so again.
My children are considered minorities. Their mother is a Legal Immigrant and Naturalized American from Southeast Asia. And, she’s as Conservative and Patriotic as they come.
In fact, several years back she was interviewed by Tampa media because she was vocally taking part in a Tea Party event downtown and the media questioned her participation in the event. They seemed to be astonished she was there.


27 posted on 04/28/2020 5:42:36 PM PDT by ocrp1982
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To: re_tail20

So, Trump is gonna lose a vote he didn’t get in 2016. I’m sure he’s bummed about that


28 posted on 04/28/2020 5:42:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Michael.SF.

He’s a former senator. Still registered GOP AFAIK.


29 posted on 04/28/2020 5:43:27 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: re_tail20

Why amplify Flake’s flaky opinions?


30 posted on 04/28/2020 5:43:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: re_tail20

I just want someone to give me one good reason why I should give a damn about anything Jeff Flake says.


31 posted on 04/28/2020 5:44:16 PM PDT by Tejas Rob
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To: re_tail20

Hey Snowflake, nobody cares.


32 posted on 04/28/2020 5:47:51 PM PDT by dixie1202
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To: re_tail20

We don’t want your corrupt vote. It stinks to high heaven!


33 posted on 04/28/2020 5:48:48 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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STFU, ya’ pathetic bitch.


34 posted on 04/28/2020 5:49:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: re_tail20

I hope he gets pancreatic cancer.


35 posted on 04/28/2020 5:49:37 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: re_tail20
Flake also warned that a second Trump term could deter younger voters from the GOP

Love how this clown makes it seem like this interview isn't about his personal jealousies, that he's trying to think bigger than himself and only considering the Party's fortunes ...

when in reality it's all about Jeff Flake's personal jealousies


36 posted on 04/28/2020 5:49:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: re_tail20

He didn’t vote for Ttump n 2016 either. What difference did it make?


37 posted on 04/28/2020 5:52:21 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: re_tail20

Started with Birtherism

Obiously one of OCommies butt bois if that’s what “started it”

BOHICA, Flakey


38 posted on 04/28/2020 5:57:51 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Open up America! Enough! COMMUNISM was and IS the problem Boycott China)
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To: re_tail20

Is anyone at all surprised at this?


39 posted on 04/28/2020 6:00:31 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: re_tail20

Go F’ yourself Flake.

I wish all shithead senators were as easy to get rid of as this guy was.


40 posted on 04/28/2020 6:01:28 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network)
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