Former Republican National Committee chairman Mel Martinez, the first Hispanic to serve in that capacity, said he’d vote for pretty much anybody other than front-runner Donald Trump for president, even if that meant crossing party lines and picking a Democrat.
“I would not vote for Trump, clearly,” he said, in a Wall Street Journal piece. “If there is any, any, any other choice, a living, breathing person with a pulse, I would be there.”
Martinez also served as a U.S. senator and then, as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush.
He said he wouldn’t vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the White House, but would seriously consider Joe Biden, former senator and current vice president, if he were to jump in the race, the Hill reported.
Martinez threw his weight behind Sen. Marco Rubio shortly after former governor Jeb Bush dropped his bid. To the Wall Street Journal, he accused Trump of running a race to the Republican nomination that was “kind of crooked,” he said.
Martinez isn’t alone in his view of Trump.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse just announced this week he wouldn’t support the billionaire businessman no matter what, saying to fellow Republicans in a widely reported announcement: “We can do better.”
The comments come as voters obviously disagree, sending Trump down the campaign trail to Super Tuesday with wide winning margins in state and national polls.
