Florida GOP spokesman leaves post over differences with Trump

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A top official inside Florida’s Republican Party has resigned from his post because he can no longer stand by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Wadi Gaitan, who has spent more than a year as the party’s director of communications, announced Monday that he had accepted a job with the conservative-leaning Libre Initiative after having grown tired of defending and working to elect Trump. Gaitan’s departure was first reported by the Washington Post.

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