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Posted: 2016-05-15T16:32:43Z | Updated: 2016-05-15T16:32:43Z GOP Congressman Needs To Talk To His Wife Before Backing Donald Trump | HuffPost

GOP Congressman Needs To Talk To His Wife Before Backing Donald Trump

"Will voters show up and still vote for a guy like this?"
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) will need to talk to his wife before he decides whether or not to support his party's presumptive nominee for president.

Huelskamp railed against Donald Trump during an interview on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace." He's one of a number of Republicans in Congress who have yet to back the former reality TV star. 

"Donald Trump has no clear position on anything," Huelskamp said. "It isn’t that he talks for a long time -- it’s that he says different things as he talks."

Huelskamp, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, said one of the most disturbing things about Trump is the language he uses on the campaign trail.

"I have a 9-year-old and he can’t even listen to the guy on the television," he said.

And when it comes down to whether or not he will vote for Trump, who is all but guaranteed the nomination, Huelskamp couldn't say.

"I don't know," he said. "I need to talk to my wife. We are both so upset about these vulgar statements; why does he have to talk like that?"

Earlier in the interview, Huelskamp described Trump's comments about women as "demeaning" and "crass."

A New York Times article published Saturday uncovered decades of mistreatment by Trump toward women he has worked with during his career. It's not the first time Trump has been accused of making unwelcome advances on women. Last year, The Daily Beast reported Ivana Trump , the business mogul's first wife, said in a deposition she felt "violated" during an incident with him in 1989.

"Will voters show up and still vote for a guy like this?" asked Huelskamp.

Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence  and is a serial liarrampant xenophoberacistmisogynist  and birther  who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.

 

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