GOP senator suggests 'you can always write someone in' come November

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last updated 4 September 2016

"I would not vote for Hillary Clinton, and as of now, I would not vote for Donald Trump," said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on CNN's State of the Union Sunday. For those similarly stymied, he added, "You can always write someone in."

Flake has insisted he is not in the #NeverTrump camp — "I would like to vote for Donald Trump," he told CNN, because "it's not comfortable to not support your nominee" — but cannot get past the candidate's positions on a number of issues, including immigration. If there has been any "softening" in Trump's immigration approach of late, Flake continued, "it was buried pretty deep" in the nominee's recent speech on the subject.

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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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