Clinton’s email woes fail to sway Never Trump Republicans
Austin Barbour, a Mississippi-based GOP operative, doesn’t consider himself part of the “Never Trump” movement, and he won’t be voting for Clinton. But he has yet to be convinced by Trump to come onboard, and the FBI critique of Clinton isn’t speeding up that process.
“I don’t think this is a beacon call for Republicans to go, ‘Oh man, this reminds me, I dislike Hillary,’” he said. “Everybody already knows how much they dislike Hillary. They didn’t need the head of the FBI to come out and tell you this or that. You know they’re shady, they do things to benefit themselves. I still think the onus falls on Donald Trump to speak to conservatives and independents and say, ‘This is why I’d be the kind of president you’d be proud of, that you can trust to be the leader of the free world.’ That’s on him.”
Barbour and other longtime Republicans lamented what they saw as Trump’s inability to capitalize on what they believe should be a major vulnerability for Clinton.
“We know who Hillary Clinton is,” he said, calling her “untrustworthy.” “That’s why it’s so sad. This is not a general election, that we’re moving into, where we feel we have a candidate, as Republicans, who can go beat her. This should be an election we win pretty handily. Instead, we’ve nominated somebody who doesn’t have a strong track record as a conservative, someone who’s more unpopular than Hillary Clinton.”
Politico
7/5/16
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