A GOP Apostate Explains Her Vote for Hillary

Kori Schake, a former Bush adviser, says a write-in vote for this year’s presidential election would be a waste.

Sept 06, 20168:10 PM

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Kori Schake, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, blanches at the idea of a Donald Trump presidency. But she still has reservations about Hillary Clinton. On The Gist, Schake says Clinton’s poor follow-through at the Department of State gives her something in common with the Bush administration. Schake is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and regular guest on Foreign Policy’s The Editor’s Roundtable podcast. She edited the recently published Warriors & Citizens: American Views of Our Military with Jim Mattis.

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