Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Friday he would rather write in his pick for the Oval Office this November than vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he has no intention of supporting either of the party’s presumptive nominees, but railed over Republicans’ expectation for him to support their pick.
“I don’t want to see trickle-down racism,” Romney said about Trump. “I don’t want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.”
The term trickle-down was first used by President Ronald Reagan when he announced trickle-down economics in the 1980s, a plan to lower taxes as a means of increasing employment and worker pay.
