Jeff Flake calls Trump an 'embarrassment,' slams election-rigging claims

Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake on Monday, upon endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, blasted President Trump as an “embarrassment,” while slamming his claims that Democrats are trying to rig the 2020 presidential election.

Flake’s comments come after he and more than a dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” effort being launched Monday by Biden’s campaign to engage potential GOP supporters this November.

Flake, who told reporters Monday that he’s never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate before, slammed the president and criticized him and his administration for being “assuredly not conservative.”

He added: “It's part of his strategy to hold power. This is extraordinarily dangerous to a free society, and it stands to inflict lasting damage to our democracy.”

Flake went on to call Trump an “embarrassment to the office” of the presidency, and questioned whether anyone wants American children to “emulate” his behavior.”

“The president’s behavior has not and will not change,” Flake said. “And whatever else you call the behavior I have just described, it is not conservative.”

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