Singer Clay Aiken on Tuesday said his mother is voting for Donald Trump — despite the GOP presidential front-runner canning him from his reality television show in 2012.
“I mean, my mother votes Republican typically. She’s not necessarily thrilled with Donald Trump as a candidate because he fired me on [‘The Celebrity] Apprentice,’” Aiken said on CNN, as first reported by Politico.
“She watched the debates, the most recent debate, and decided,” Aiken said, citing last week’s 11th GOP presidential debate in Detroit.
“A number of people in North Carolina who I’ve spoken to have decided to vote for Trump because the establishment is attacking him and they’re tired of typical politicians,” added Aiken, who unsuccessfully ran for a House seat representing the Tar Heel State’s 2nd Congressional District in 2014.
Aiken also argued that Trump is resonating with voters exhausted by politics as usual from traditional lawmakers.
“A lot of people who are supporting Trump are supporting him because he’s not a typical — he’s not a typical politician,” he said.
The former “American Idol” runner-up added that campaign ads deriding Trump’s course language would not dent his popularity with voters.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kno...-my-moms-voting-trump-even-though-he-fired-me
How humiliating....
“I mean, my mother votes Republican typically. She’s not necessarily thrilled with Donald Trump as a candidate because he fired me on [‘The Celebrity] Apprentice,’” Aiken said on CNN, as first reported by Politico.
“She watched the debates, the most recent debate, and decided,” Aiken said, citing last week’s 11th GOP presidential debate in Detroit.
“A number of people in North Carolina who I’ve spoken to have decided to vote for Trump because the establishment is attacking him and they’re tired of typical politicians,” added Aiken, who unsuccessfully ran for a House seat representing the Tar Heel State’s 2nd Congressional District in 2014.
Aiken also argued that Trump is resonating with voters exhausted by politics as usual from traditional lawmakers.
“A lot of people who are supporting Trump are supporting him because he’s not a typical — he’s not a typical politician,” he said.
The former “American Idol” runner-up added that campaign ads deriding Trump’s course language would not dent his popularity with voters.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kno...-my-moms-voting-trump-even-though-he-fired-me
How humiliating....
