In conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt's opinion, the Republican Party's decision to keep Donald Trump as its presumptive nominee is about as smart as "ignoring stage-four cancer." "You can't do it, you gotta attack it," Hewitt said Wednesday morning during his show. "And right now the Republican Party is facing — the plane is headed towards the mountain."
Unlike fellow Republicans Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who have said they won't vote for Trump, Hewitt said he isn't comfortable simply shirking his party's nominee. Instead, he thinks that the GOP should just pick a nominee people could actually get behind. "I want to support the nominee of the party, but I think the party ought to change the nominee," Hewitt said. "Because we're going to get killed with this nominee."
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