GOP Sen. Calls For Ariz. Local Party To Pull Sponsorship Of Trump Event

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) on Thursday called on the local Republican party in Maricopa County, Ariz., to pull its sponsorship of a campaign event for Donald Trump due to the presidential candidate's recent comments about Mexican immigrants.

"As an elected official and as a Republican, I’m not excited about this, to say the least," Flake told the Washington Post. "I don’t think that (Trump's) views are reflective of the party, particularly in Arizona, a border state."

Flake said that Trump's comments calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" and drug dealers were "ill-informed" and "not accurate."

The senator was also troubled by Trump's recent remark that he wasn't sure whether President Obama was born in the U.S. "It’s not just on the immigration side. Donald Trump is just about the last unapologetic birther in the country," Flake told the Post.

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