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Local GOP chair urges others to vote Democrat over Trump — and it may get him ousted

Local GOP chair urges others to vote Democrat over Trump — and it may get him ousted

A municipal Republican chair in Pennsylvania believes his efforts to encourage people to vote for someone other than Donald Trump could lead to his ouster.

Matthew McCaffery, the GOP municipal chair in Upper Merion Township, wrote an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer last month saying that while he voted for Trump in 2016, he would vote Democrat this year — and encouraged others to join him.

"When Donald Trump was invited to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris, where thousands of Americans killed in combat are buried, he refused and called the heroes buried there 'suckers' and 'losers.' I don’t agree with Joe Biden on a lot, but he had enough honor to visit the cemetery and pay his respects," wrote McCaffery.
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