Roger Katz, Republican state senator from Augusta, calls Trump ‘not fit to be president’

Source: Portland Press Herald

State Sen. Roger Katz, a lawyer and moderate Republican from Augusta who has sometimes clashed with Gov. Paul LePage, says presidential candidate Donald Trump “is not fit to be president” and that he can’t see how Republicans can continue to support him.

In an op-ed first published on pressherald.com Friday, a day after Trump held a rally in Portland, Katz laid out why he believes supporting the New York businessman would be bad for Republicans. The former assistant Senate Republican leader is the highest-profile member of his party in Maine to say Trump will not have his support.

“Considering a Trump presidency shouldn’t be about party loyalty or political ideology,” he wrote. “Instead, it’s become a question of who we are – and who we want to be as Americans.”

Katz, who is Jewish, drew a parallel between Hitler’s rise in Nazi Germany and Trump’s own fear-based rhetoric. He said Trump has seized on the anxieties of Americans and has given them someone to blame: outsiders.

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