Plenty of Republicans Find Themselves Morally Challenged

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on “Face the Nation,” 1/14/24: “Let me be very clear. I love my country too much to vote for Donald Trump.”

This is the precise quandary that a great many Republicans will face if Trump gets the GOP nomination: the fact that a vote for the former president requires an incredible level of ignorance and hatred, and an appalling lack of integrity, that these people, to their credit, simply don’t possess.

What precisely they will do remains an open question. Though, at this point, we’re starting to run across stories about Republicans who claim they’ll be voting for Biden.  While this may sound too good to be true, consider that Trump lost in 2020 by seven million votes, and that was before we were bombarded with news from the trials for sexual abuse, fraud, sedition, election tampering, etc.