Former Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said he will vote for Donald Trump in a potential November match-up with Hillary Clinton.
“I do think he’ll be better than Hillary Clinton, I don’t think it’s a great set of choices,” Jindal told CNN host Brooke Baldwin Tuesday afternoon. “If he is the nominee, I’m going to be supporting my party’s nominee. I’m not happy about it … but I would vote for him over Hillary Clinton.”
But for all of the support the former Louisiana governor said he would show the New York businessman, he admitted it was not the general election GOP candidate he would like to see win the nomination.
Despite hitting the GOP front-runner over the head in an op-ed Jindal wrote for CNN Tuesday, he praised Trump’s populist tendencies, saying they were better than Democrats’ ideology.
“The American people are, I believe, still optimists who will respond if we provide that roadmap, but they won’t wait forever; Trump’s populism provides, for many, an attractive safety blanket in the absence of a viable conservative alternative,” Jindal wrote.
Jindal had endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio for president before the Florida politician ended his campaign in March.
