GOP senator says if Trump could be president only 'in private, I guess it would be OK'
In an effort to convince Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to endorse Donald Trump, vice presidential candidate Mike Pence reportedly claimed Trump is "a different guy in private than he is shown in public."
Speaking on CBS Sunday, Flake recounted a positive meeting with Pence but said so far, he isn't swayed. "I have yet to see Donald Trump change positions he needs to change, and particularly change the tone and tenor of the debate," he said, adding that he hopes to support the nominee though it is "increasingly difficult to see that he's going to make the changes that he needs to."
"If you can govern in private, I guess it would be OK," Flake conceded. "But you can't, and I still have a problem with some of the statements that he's making." Watch Flake list his many objections to Trump below. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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