For Ernie Boch, Supporting Trump is Like Choosing a Late Night Hook-up

Originally published on Feb. 4, 2016.

NORWOOD, MA - When it comes to picking presidential candidates, local car salesman Ernie Boch Jr. apparently applies the same logic used to find a friend in clubs and bars at last call.

Appearing on CNN’s New Day with Chris Cuomo Thursday morning, Boch compared his decision to support Trump to picking up a girl for a one night stand. Here the transcript:

Cuomo: Why do you have confidence that you would want Trump deciding to bomb another country or making any of the heavier decisions they have to make.
Boch: We had a first time senator making those decisions. I think that he can make the decision as well as anybody else. Who is more qualified? You got to think of it like this, it’s 2 o’clock in the morning, and there’s a few girls at the bar, you have to go home with one of them. You have to pick who you’re with and I think Mr. Trump is the best qualified.
Cuomo: Hold on a second, Ernie, you’re analogy for what makes you the right guy when you get the bad call at 2 o’clock in the morning is what you need to do in the bar when you have women there and you have to decide which one? That’s how you’re head works?
Boch You’re misunderstanding me. If you’re single you understand this. It’s the end of the night, you want to go home with somebody, the bar is about the close, you have to pick somebody, you have to stand behind somebody and I think if you line up all the candidates with their positives and negatives, I think Mr. Trump is the man.
Cuomo: So you’re saying he’s the least worse decision that you could make in the final moments of having to make one? That’s what you’re saying?
Boch: I’m not saying that but I want people to understand you have to pick somebody.

Boch went on to tell Cuomo that while recently driving his son to school, an officer ordered him to pull into a parking lot. Worried that he would be cited for driving without his license, the officer instead thanked him for his backing of Trump.

Boch’s support for Trump is well known. Last summer, the candidate spoke at a party Boch’s Norwood home. In January, Boch told The Hill that he would be willing to donate $1 million to the Trump campaign, but is unable to due to federal campaign contribution limits and the lack of a Trump-supporting Super-PAC.

Click the video below to see the full interview.