Zach Wamp Calls Trump "Wild Man" He Does Not Trust; Says Cruz Ran Dirtiest Campaign In History In South Carolina

  • Monday, February 22, 2016

Former Congressman Zach Wamp, the Tennessee chairman for Marco Rubio for president, in a speech Monday termed GOP front-runner Donald Trump "the wild card. You might say he's the wild man."

Mr. Wamp told the Pachyderm Club, "I don't trust Donald Tump. He's been all over the place all of his life. If he gets in, I have no idea what's he going to do, and I worry about the world."

He added, "I've been in this business a long, long time and I believe our public servants should not be entertainers. This is not the Kardashians. They should be people who have done something great for humanity."  

Mr. Wamp said, if Mr. Trump becomes the Republican nominee, "Hillary Clinton will win the White House. And it will be a generation before the Republicans will be able to elect another president."

He told the group that Ted Cruz "ran the dirtiest campaign in history in South Carolina," including using deceptive Photo Shopping and voice overs.

Mr. Wamp said Senator Cruz "is a really, really smart person who has run an excellent campaign," but he said he cannot win the Republican nomination. He said that is between Trump and Rubio.

The speaker said he is very fond of both John Kasich and Ben Carson, but he said both should get out of the race, saying at this point "they cannot win and they are only helping Trump."

At this point in the race, he said it is still "a jump ball." He gave Mr. Trump "a 50/50 chance of winning."

Mr. Wamp said Senator Rubio can bring various elements of the nation together, and he said he is well-versed in military affairs after serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Senator Bob Corker.

He said he has "a great first family. He is a self-made man with a great documentable story of rising from poor circumstances."

Mr. Wamp said the one slip up by Senator Rubio is when he came out briefly for amnesty for illegals, but he said he reversed course. He said he "was knocked down for five minutes by Chris Christie" in one of the debates, but showed he could rise back up.

Mr. Wamp said, "The last seven years have been terrible, and they are going to be worse under Clinton or Sanders."

He said columnist Peggy Noonan a few months ago may have pointed to why the elections are going the way they are by saying, "When people get really angry, they use bad judgment."

 


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