Sen. Mark Kirk withdraws support for Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

WASHINGTON – Sen. Mark Kirk R-Ill., facing a big challenge from Rep. Tammy Duckworth D-Ill., said Tuesday he will not support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump after earlier saying he will back him.

” I cannot and will not support my party’s nominee for President regardless of the political impact on my candidacy or the Republican Party,” Kirk said in a statement.

Kirk’s campaign issued the statement after coming under heavy attack from Duckworth and her allies over Trump, with the pressure growing after Trump blasted a federal judge hearing Trump University fraud cases because he was the son of Mexican immigrants.

Read more: http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sen-mark-kirk-withdraws-support-for-trump/

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Two options:

1. Trump will unload on him for "disloyalty" and scare everyone else.

2. Trump will ignore him and others will think they can get away with it as well.

[OKNancy]

1. He's really worried about Duckworth.

Probably more worried about her than he is about Trump's bigoted remarks.

[LynneSin]

9. Kirk won election because of Mid-term's 35% voter turnout

Unfortunately Democrats are not reliable voters. But if we get even 50% voter turnout for the Presidential Election then Kirk and a few other of the freshmen Republicans from the class of 2010 will be goners.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. It's Trump. He can't "ignore" ANYTHING. Super thin skinned. n/t

[reflection]

13. rice paper skin.

For that reason alone, he'd make the WORST Commander-in-Chief imaginable. Can you imagine how easily he could be goaded into making a stupid military mistake?

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Yes I can imagine, and it scares the bejeebus out of me.

[surrealAmerican]

21. Then again, this is Mark Kirk we're talking about.

The man is very easy to ignore - never really made much of an impact one way or the other - just a useless Republican tool.

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. True. n/t

[msongs]

3. no change. kirk = repub, repub = trump nt

[DrToast]

4. None of the above

3. Trump will unload on him and nobody will be scared.

[truthisfreedom]

5. trump is disloyal to the entire human race.

He's in no position to judge anything other than a hairspray and mousse abuse contest.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Senator Kirk needs to exit the Party that is now defined by Donald Trump or his words are

meaningless.

[Person 2713]

19. Kirk needs to exit period after Nov. with no words needed

Time for our new senator Dem. Tammy Duckworth

[scottie55]

7. Finger In The Wind Says Trump Flame Dying - Time To Bail From Bandwagon

Of nitwits.

[lark]

8. #2

Ron Johnson
Mark Kirk
?

You know they are coming, this is just too big to ignore.

[beachbumbob]

10. Too bad...he was for trump before he was against trump...Kirk won't win

A long list of GOP senators going down this time...and many thanks to trump and his racist bigoted supporters...

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Kirk is being "Unfair" to trump

Kirk is a waffler too, a weak simpleton

They're backed into a corner, don't let them out of it

[Kelvin Mace]

12. He will ultimately endorse him

Because they all will.

[ailsagirl]

15. Kirk "unendorses" drumpf hah!!

Let the games begin

[3catwoman3]

16. Unless he comes right out and says...

...he will not vote for him this will be an empty gesture.

[charlyvi]

17. Trump was okay, though when he was only a birther,

misogynist, said Mexico sends us rapists, etc. Pardon me if I think this is a political ploy only. Illinois is a reliably blue state, he's pandering.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. Bwaahahahaaaa

Kirk is done. I'm shocked the Thugs didn't primary him.

[sarcasmo]

20. Kick.