Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/meg-whitman-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0
Meg Whitman, a Hewlett Packard executive and Republican fund-raiser, said Tuesday that she would support Hillary Clinton for president and give a substantial contribution to her campaign in order to stop Donald J. Trump, whom she berated as a threat to American democracy.
I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her, Ms. Whitman said in a telephone interview.
She revealed that Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had reached out to her in a phone call about a month ago, one of the first indications that Mrs. Clinton is aggressively courting Republican leaders. While acknowledging she diverged from Mrs. Clinton on many policy issues, Ms. Whitman said it was time for Republicans to put country first before party.
Using remarkably blunt language, she argued that the election of Mr. Trump, whom she called a dishonest demagogue, could lead the country on a very dangerous journey. She noted that democracies had seldom lasted longer than a few hundred years and warned that those who say that it cant happen here are being naïve.
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