A fired political adviser for Donald Trump has endorsed Ted Cruz.
“Cruz is a Reagan conservative. Donald Trump does not have a coherent political ideology — if anything, I would describe him as a Chris Christie Republican,” Sam Nunberg said in a statement to Politico Playbook on Monday.
Nunberg was fired from Trump’s campaign last summer after racist Facebook posts were discovered. He hinted that his decision to not back Trump was not a recent one.
“When did I decide that I could no longer support Trump? Last fall, when he did not have any idea of what the nuclear triad is in a debate. I was concerned but I figured that he would bulk up on policy,” Nunberg said. “He has not. I do not see a candidate who takes these issues seriously.”
The “last straws” for Nunberg was the interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in which Trump failed to immediately disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in addition to another on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” when Trump remarked “I am really good at this stuff,” referring to foreign policy. “He is not,” Nunberg said.
“If an open convention was good enough for Lincoln, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford, it is good enough even for the great Donald Trump,” Nunberg told Poilitico. “If Trump’s opponent had 1,236 delegates and he had one, he would be demanding a brokered convention.”
