Ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Ridge explains vote for Biden in Philadelphia paper

[RandySF]

Tom Ridge, the former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and the first U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, has announced he will be backing former Vice President Joe Biden in the presidential race, saying in an op-ed that President Trump “lacks the empathy, integrity, intellect and maturity to lead.”

Ridge, who served in former President George W. Bush's administration, said in an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday that his decision to vote for Biden in November will mark the first time he has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

Ridge, who has a history of criticizing Trump, accused the president of sowing “division along political, racial and religious lines” in the op-ed on Sunday morning and said he “routinely dismisses the opinions of experts who know far more about the subject at hand than he does – intelligence, military, and public health.”

“Our country has paid dearly in lives lost, social unrest, economic hardship and our standing in the world,” he wrote.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/518484-ex-pennsylvania-gov-ridge-explains-vote-for-biden-in-philadelphia-paper

[napi21]

1. I HOPE the backing of so many Pub leaders will sway at least SOME Pub voters. Ridge wasn't a really

bad Governor. I lived in Pa. then & he was one of the middle of the road Pubs who were run out of the party in recent times.

[Iliyah]

2. Heavy weighs in the republican party . . .

is sending vibes to the republican congress and it ain't in their favor.