Former McCain aide says he's for Hillary Clinton

Given the choice between Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, a former top aide to one-time GOP nominee John McCain says he'd choose Clinton any day. "I'm with her," Mark Salter, who served as both chief of staff for the Arizona senator and as senior advisor on his 2008 presidential campaign, tweeted Thursday, referencing Clinton's campaign slogan.

Salter's slam on Trump on the day of the decisive Indiana GOP primary is far from his first anti-Trump screed. He's written numerous op-eds about the damage Trump could cause to the party and, in a Real Clear Politics piece published in February, he warned that Trump is "making us the worst we can be to satisfy his own vainglory." "If you can see him plainly and you love our country," Salter wrote, "you must vote against him. Even if that means electing Hillary Clinton."

If Trump wins Indiana tonight — as the polls are predicting he will — Salter had better ready his ballot for Clinton.

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