Republican state senator leaves party over Trump

The repugnant racists rhetoric of the Trumpet has caused the first elected Republican office holder to leave the party.
Iowa state Senator David Johnson has served in the Iowa legislature for eighteen years; on Tuesday he changed his voter registration from Republican to "no party".
He compared Trump's campaign to the rise of Adolf Hitler and said that he couldn't stand idly by anymore. He also cited Trump's "racist remarks and judicial jihad" against Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom Trump accused of being unfit to preside over the Trump University fraud case because of his Mexican heritage.

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I will not stand silent if the party of Lincoln and the end of slavery buckles under the racial bias of a bigot. ...fascists took control of Germany under the same types of strategies [used by Trump].

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If we're going to exclude Muslims from traveling to the United States, who's next? Are we going to come down on Jews?

Johnson also said that he wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton and that he'd "gladly re-join Republicans who are dedicated to equality and justice for all" if there's a split in the party.

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