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Republican establishment ups the “Stop
Trump” campaign
Wait, what? Mitt
Romney and Lindsey Graham switch gears; look to Cruz as Savior (figuratively)
In the continuing attempt
to “Stop Trump,” establishment Republicans are doing whatever they can to
encourage voters to support anyone but Donald Trump.
Mitt Romney, the 2012
Republican presidential nominee, announced today that he would vote for Senator
Ted Cruz in Tuesday’s Utah caucuses.
When questioned, Romney’s
aides said that the vote in Utah is not an endorsement, saying, “Governor
Romney is not endorsing Senator Cruz because frankly, he can’t stand the man and
everything he stands for. He simply can't stand Donald Trump more.”
Romney, who last week
campaigned in Ohio for Cruz rival Ohio Governor John Kasich, said at the time,
“If I lived in Ohio, I would vote for John Kasich.”
Although Romney’s
statements regarding for whom he would vote have been confusing, a Romney
spokesperson, Elder Smith Young, would not confirm whether Mr. Romney would be
checking into the Provo Center for Mental Rehabilitation to treat what many
people are suggesting is a classic case of “Trump Induced Republican Electoral
Schizophrenic Syndrome (aka TIRES Syndrome).”
Romney’s wavering, but
non-endorsement, support of “anyone but Trump” was actually Trumped earlier today
by South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s endorsement of Cruz.
Graham, who dropped out
of the presidential race himself earlier this year, said at the time, regarding
the potential of supporting either a Trump or Cruz candidacy, “It's like
being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?"
Regarding his endorsement
of Cruz today, a Graham spokesperson, Rufus Chittleworth, clarified the
senator’s earlier statement, saying, “To be clear, the senator’s comments at
the time equated supporting Cruz to being poisoned and Trump to being shot,”
going on to say, “Since that time the senator has been undergoing intensive
poison antidote treatment at the South Carolina Poison and Political
Flip-Flopping Institute and now feels that a Cruz endorsement no longer poses
any risk to his health.”
Chittleworth could not
answer whether the endorsement posed any risk to what remains of Graham’s reputation.
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