Decatur Republican, Electoral Delegate Says He Won't Vote for Donald Trump

A Decatur-based GOP activist and one of Georgia's 16 electoral college members says he will not vote for Republican White House nominee Donald Trump in November.

Baoky Vu told the AJC that he has a right to vote for a write-in candidate in the electoral college. Georgia is one of 21 states that does not require its electoral college members to follow the results of a popular vote in their state.

Vu is a naturalized U.S. citizen and vice president of VetConnexx. He represents the 4th congressional district on the Technical College System of Georgia's board of directors, and is also vice chair of DeKalb's board of voter registration and elections.

Mother Jones is reporting that Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector, and if Trump wins Georgia, Vu will be one of the electors who will decide the presidential election.

"Rather than earning the American people’s respect and trust through the duration of the past year, Donald Trump’s antics and asinine behavior has cemented my belief that he lacks the judgment, temperament and gravitas to lead this nation," Vu said in a statement. "Throughout the process, he has hurled insults at our heroes and their families, denigrated the disabled and praised dictators. Forget political incorrectness, this is simply despicable demagoguery.

“In this time of global challenges, we will succeed only if we come together. We’ve done it before, from the courthouse steps of Appomattox to the days after Pearl Harbor. And to my Republican brothers and sisters in arms, politics should be a honorable sport. Rather than fighting to defend the indefensible, let’s live to fight another day.”

Vu attended the GOP's convention in Cleveland recently as an alternate delegate for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

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