(CHICAGO) Republican Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger was on WLS Thursday morning, explaining why he won’t be supporting his party’s presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Kinzinger told “The BIg John Howell Show” he cannot back Trump, even if the candidate were to become more disciplined and “on message”.
“I personally can see zero way I can support Donald Trump anymore. He has crossed too many political red lines for me, and at some point, even if tomorrow he changed, and even if tomorrow he began to stick to message and everything, I’m concerned that we’ve spent the last three or four weeks or frankly the last year, getting a window into his soul, and this is the man, who if we elect him as President, would actually be who we see as Commander in Chief, and it makes me scared.”
Kinzinger also talked with CNN about Trump’s comments that the November election will already be rigged in Hillary Clinton’s favor, saying that it’s ‘unheard of’ for a candidate to question ‘our ability to do votes here.’
The final straw for Kinzinger, though, came when Trump attacked the family of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who criticized him at the Democratic convention. Kinzinger ripped into Trump for taking their comments as “an affront to him.”
It’s a change of heart for the Congressman, who just two weeks ago at the RNC, said he’d “keep open the possibility of backing Trump.”
Rep. Kinzinger joined Big John Howell on Thursday morning to elaborate. Here is the entire segment as heard on WLS-AM 890 on Thursday, April 4.
CLICK FOR THE INTERVIEW