Dem who endorsed Trump quits office after severe blowback – By WND News Services (WND) / April 22 2020
‘I’m sick and tired of me and my family being attacked and harassed by the Democrat Party’
Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones announced that he is stepping down from office, citing attacks and harassment from his party following his endorsement of President Donald Trump for re-election.
Jones shocked the Georgia political establishment when he became the first state-elected Democrat to endorse Trump earlier in April. While the move drew quick recognition and applause from the White House, Democratic leaders closer to home immediately disavowed him, and pledged to help unseat him from office.
The blowback from his party is too much, and he is stepping down from his post as the representative for Georgia’s 91st House District, Jones said.
“I’m sick and tired of me and my family being attacked and harassed by the Democrat Party for putting my country before my party,” Jones said in a statement released Wednesday, and first obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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