Democratic 18th District Congressional Candidate Junius Rodriguez says Congressman Darin LaHood’s judgment and character are in question for continuing to support the GOP Presidential nominee. Rodriguez says LaHood’s failure to follow Congressman Rodney Davis’s lead and renounce Trump was a bellwether moment:
“It’s the moment Darin LaHood should have had some kind of pang of conscious. This is the point where you put country and national interest ahead of whatever political partisan belief that you might have and you just do the right thing.”
Rodrigues is a History Professor at Eureka College. Other members of the Illinois delegation have already said they would not support Trump.
16th District Congressman Adam Kinzinger made the declaration in early August. After Friday’s Trump revelations, Senator Mark Kirk has repeated his standing, saying his party chose the wrong guy to run for president.