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Irene Rasmussen: We can’t vote ‘against’ someone

Regarding the March 4 Focus article “Romney and McCain say a Trump presidency would bring disaster”: Too little, too late.

Mitt Romney and John McCain are ignoring the oldest rule of election politics: Voters can’t vote against someone; they can only vote for someone. There is no place on the ballot to vote “not Trump.”

Soon, when Trump is the Republican nominee, they can urge their fellow nonbigoted, rational and reasonable Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Irene Rasmussen

Knightdale

This story was originally published March 12, 2016 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Irene Rasmussen: We can’t vote ‘against’ someone."

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