Top Chris Christie aide says she'll support Hillary Clinton

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Source: CBS News

One of Chris Christie's former top aides, Maria Comella, said Tuesday that she won't be voting for Donald Trump, although her old boss is supporting the GOP nominee and running his presidential transition team.

"I'm voting for Hillary Clinton in November and I'm voting for her because I don't believe it's enough to say you aren't for Donald Trump," she said in an email interview with CNN's Jamie Gangel. Comella, who worked for Christie through both of his gubernatorial campaigns, went on to say that "we are at a moment where silence isn't an option."

Comella said Trump's response to criticism by a Muslim American couple whose son was killed in the Iraq war didn't come as a shock to her, since throughout the election, Trump has been a "demagogue" who has been preying on "people's anxieties with loose information and salacious rhetoric, drumming up fear and hatred of the 'other.'"

On Tuesday, Christie, too, was also asked about Trump's remarks about the Khans -- he wouldn't weigh in on Trump, but the New Jersey governor flatly rejected the idea of attacking the grieving couple.



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[HereSince1628]

1. More republican refugees... give us your tired, not so poor, yearning to be free of Trump.

But, is this going to be a temporary visa thing?

Or, do we make them study the platform, basic Dem history and be able to name our presidents, etc.,

-before- we offer them citizenship?

cynical

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2. I believe many of them will become lifelong converts

Don the Con is highlighting (in dramatic fashion) the error of their ways. I suspect that many of them will come to understand that there's more to life and politics than money money money. Their eyes will be opened to the fact that people need healthcare, a secure retirement, good education, etc. I suspect that once they wash the stench of Don the Con off of themselves they'll feel invigorated and begin to understand what the Democratic party stands for. I expect that once they've discovered the joy of voting for a Democrat that they'll repeat the experience over and over again.