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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:51 PM Oct 2016

NJ Lt. Gov. bails on Trump

Lt. Gov. Guadagno breaks with Christie, won't vote for Trump

TRENTON — Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is breaking with Gov. Chris Christie and says she will not vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, and hasn't decided if she'll vote for a third party candidate or not at all.

So, too, is the only declared 2017 GOP governor candidate, Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerset), who says he likely won't vote in November, and is calling on Trump to voluntarily step aside.

For years, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno has been a Christie loyalist, never publicly taking a position that differed from that of her boss and deflecting most of political questions to the governor to whom she owes her job.

That changed on Saturday, when Guadagno answered a question on Twitter from an editor at the south Jersey publications The Daily Journal and Courier-Post about her reaction to an explosive video of Donald Trump's boasting of a cavalier attitude about sexual assault.

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http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/10/lt_gov_guadagno_breaks_with_christie_wont_vote_for.html

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NJ Lt. Gov. bails on Trump (Original Post) bluestateguy Oct 2016 OP
Christie, of course, doesn't think sexual assualt is a real crime. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #1
And, sadly, there are DUers who agree. spooky3 Oct 2016 #2
are there? Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author kestrel91316 Oct 2016 #4
I hear that. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #5

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
1. Christie, of course, doesn't think sexual assualt is a real crime.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:03 PM
Oct 2016

Now, if Trump had been caught smoking a joint, Christie would be fully in favor of incarcerating him.

Response to Warren DeMontague (Reply #3)

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