Former GOP Congress members call Trump's candidacy 'disgraceful'
WASHINGTON _ More than 30 former Republican members of Congress issued a scathing open letter Thursday announcing their opposition to Donald Trump and urging fellow Republicans to deny him the White House.
The group recounts the GOP presidential candidate's long list of insults and "lies," and says his "disgraceful candidacy is indefensible."
"As Republican members of Congress, we took pride in representing a political party that stood for honest and principled public leadership in which the American people could place their trust," they wrote in an open letter.
"Sadly, our party's nominee this year is a man who makes a mockery of the principles and values we have cherished and which we sought to represent in Congress."
The group includes key swing state figures, and is the largest showing of onetime GOP officials refusing to back the party's presidential nominee this year.
_ Tribune Washington Bureau
