A key Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday he feels Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a lot of support from Republican senators on Capitol Hill.
“From a Senate perspective, in a secret ballot, Hillary gets a lot of votes out of the Republican caucus. Potentially she even commands a majority of the Republican caucus in a secret ballot because people really do respect her,” Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse told Buzzfeed.
“I can remember sitting down in the secure facility in the basement of the Capitol getting a briefing from her on a highly classified matter and a bunch of Republican senators were sitting in front of me,” he continued.
“Two of them, her very prominent antagonists in this election, and one looked over at the other and said ‘boy, she’s good.’ The other one leaned back and said, ‘yeah, she’s really good.’ And that’s the Hillary that they know. Not the talking points Hillary or the caricature, but the real person.”
Whitehouse then compared Clinton’s attitude towards lawmakers with Republican presidential nominee Trump’s sentiments.
“Donald Trump, on the other hand, has such temperamental problems that it’s hard to see how he would work with us. But he’s also so badly damaged people who have tried to help him. Look at what he did to poor Chris Christie who tried to be his friend and is now almost a national laughingstock as a result of what he’s done to him …Ted Cruz and him were all buds and next thing you know it’s lying Ted and he’s accusing Ted’s dad of having something to do with he Kennedy assassination.”
The interview concludes with more harsh words for Trump, who Whitehouse labels as “poisonous.” “With Donald Trump, it’s all about only one thing and that is Donald Trump,” said Whitehouse.
Trump made the news in July when he failed to back leaders of the House and Senate during the general election and primary. Trump even went as far as to tweet his support of Paul Nehlen, who ran against Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in the primary. Trump later endorsed Senator John McCain, Ryan, and Senator Kelly Ayotte.
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