GOP Senator Who Unendorsed Donald Trump Decides To Vote For Him

Mike Crapo is no longer an undecided voter.
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WASHINGTON ― When it became clear that Donald Trump would be the Republican Party’s nominee for president earlier this year, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) endorsed him.

When a video surfaced a few weeks ago of Trump boasting of sexually assaulting women, Crapo withdrew his endorsement and said Trump should withdraw his candidacy. But the Idaho Republican later said he hadn’t decided whether he’d vote for Trump.

On Friday, Crapo came clean: He will vote for Trump after all.

“The choice we still have today and the choice we will have is between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,” Crapo told an Idaho radio station. “In that context, I have to tell you, though I thought and felt we needed a different choice, that’s not what we’re going to get, and we cannot elect Hillary Clinton for many reasons.”

On Monday, to make sure people noticed the re-endorsement, Crapo’s campaign pushed out the Idaho State Journal’s Friday story.

Crapo is actually one of several Republican members of Congress to affirm they will be voting for Trump even though they said he should end his campaign in light of his comments about groping women.

Republicans in Idaho weren’t too happy about Crapo’s anti-Trump antics, which might help explain his change of heart.

“You have lost our respect as a Republican and we feel you are no longer worthy of the title of ‘Republican’ that we proudly wear,” Jon Menough, chairman of the Idaho County Republican Central Committee, said in a letter to Crapo.

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