Lawmaker @JimHendren1 left the GOP after the Capitol insurrection, but he reluctantly voted Trump in 2020. "We see choices where we have a far-right extremist on the Republican side," he tells @mehdirhasan, "versus a Democratic candidate who does not represent the values at all."
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.@mehdirhasan pushes ex-GOPer Jim Hendren on why he only left the party this year: "Kids in cages, Trump praising neo-Nazis...telling Ilhan Omar and AOC to go back to their countries...none of those made you think 'I can't be part of this anymore'"? Watch and decide:

Mar 11, 2021 · 1:19 AM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
He could have simply summarized his response with these two words: "No spine"
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan
An important piece of testimony because none of us on the other side of 45-complicity can understand this. It's terrible to hear how low the standards were & that the last straw was a violent insurrection, and still, only a last straw for "some".