I did not.”“Compromise, common sense and listening to all sides of an issue don’t seem like countercultural values,” Skykes wrote in the Post. “But in my state’s Republican Party, such values have become increasingly difficult to find. Despite nabbing Trump’s endorsement, Kobach was defeated by Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly in the November midterm elections by 4.5 percentage points. “I see a future in which sound policy is valued above scoring cheap political points.”Sykes is one of several lawmakers to defect from the Republican Party since Trump’s victory in 2016. And in Maine, state Rep. Don Marean, who was re-elected in November, announced on Jan. 3 that he had decided to leave the Republican Party to become an independent.

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2019 17:03 UTC