Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joined a growing number of prominent republicans who say they will not be voting for Trump in the upcoming November election.
On Sunday, Colin Powell announced he will not vote for Trump in the general election later this year.
“I certainly cannot, in any way, support President Trump this year,” said Powell. He made his statement during CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We have a Constitution and we have to follow that Constitution, and the president has drifted away from it.”
Powell said that the many protests taking place show that Americans are getting frustrated.
“I think what we’re seeing now, this massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we’re not going to put up with it anymore,” the retired general said.
“What we have to do now is reach out to the whole people, watch these demonstrations, watch these protests, and rather than curse them, embrace them to see what it is we have to do to get out of the situation that we find ourselves in now,” he said.
“We’re America, we’re Americans, we can do this. We have the ability to do it, and we ought to do it. Make America not just great, but strong and great for all Americans, not just a couple.”
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Instead of casting his vote toward Trump, Powell said that he will support the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
“I’m very close to Joe Biden in a social matter and in a political matter,” Powell said. “I’ve worked with him for 35, 40 years. And he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him.”
As usual, Trump was quick to jump on Twitter to attack Powell over his announcement.
“Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had ‘weapons of mass destruction?’ They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!” Trump wrote.
Thing is, perhaps the National Guard shouldn’t be used as American pest controls.
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