Hillary Clinton supporter and co-founder of Republicans for Clinton John Stubbs called GOP candidate Donald Trump a "parasite" in an interview with The Daily Caller.
"It's not like Trump got the nomination and I decided, overnight, 'Oh my God,'" Stubbs said about how he became a Clinton supporter.
"Trump is kind of like a parasite who came into the party and is now eating the host," the Republican said. "This is one of the reasons I hope he is beaten like a drum."
"If Trump controls the brand, the Republican brand is done," he cautioned.
"The Republican Party to my children is Donald Trump — just like to me it was Ronald Reagan," he continued. "My kids don't want any part of the Republican Party now. It is literally the opposite of everything I worked on as a Republican."
The solution, according to Stubbs, is for Republicans to reject Trump's campaign and back Clinton instead.
"It cannot be the case that any major party candidate empowers people who have such ill will to enter polite society. The only thing to do now is to say to Republican voters: 'We have to vote for Clinton.'" he said. "There is imminent danger and we have a moral obligation to make that step."
Even voters who dislike Clinton and Trump "can still agree that Trump is a full-on catastrophe and they can agree that Clinton will not be a disaster," he added, also admitting that his reasoning for supporting Clinton is "not that inspiring."
In late July, one day after "Trump's apocalypse speech in Cleveland" as Stubbs puts it, he penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post praising Clinton for her willingness to reach across the aisle during her time in the Senate.
"Although she's taken criticism for overstating her record of bipartisanship, she was hardly a partisan shill in the Senate," Stubbs wrote in the piece. "Sixty-eight percent of her bills had GOP co-sponsors."
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