CROSSING THE AISLE

Three-Term GOP Rep. Richard Hanna: I Will Vote Hillary

First House Republican to say so.

Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) announced Tuesday that he will cross party lines in November to vote for Hillary Clinton for president because GOP nominee Donald Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.” The three-term outgoing congressman wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com that reiterated his previous qualms with Clinton, but asserted that “I trust she can lead”—especially when compared with Trump’s “bumper sticker slogans that pander to our disappointment, fear, and hate.” Hanna had been considering a Clinton vote for several months, but told Syracuse.com that watching Trump disparage the Muslim-American parents of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq was the final straw.