Bush’s Commerce Secretary Endorses Clinton

Carlos Gutierrez, President George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Commerce, said Sunday that Hillary Clinton would make a “darn good president,” and he’ll be voting for her this fall.

“I actually think Hillary Clinton has the experience, she’s been around, she knows how the system works,” Gutierrez told CNN “State of the Union” anchor Jake Tapper.

“I would have preferred Jeb Bush, but I think Hillary is a great choice. I am afraid of what Donald Trump would do to this country.”

He said his breaking point came when Trump expressed doubts earlier this summer that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University, could preside fairly over the case because of his Mexican heritage. Trump’s comments came just weeks after he secured the GOP nomination.

“I have been a Republican,” Gutierrez told Tapper. “My inclination was to vote for a Republican. I was a Jeb Bush person. I made the switch away from Trump, it was that week of the judge … that for me did it. That’s it. I don’t want to go back to a country where, if a child has a Spanish last name, that the president, the leader of the country, is giving kids a license to bully them.” (Read more from “Bush’s Commerce Secretary Endorses Clinton” HERE)

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