Baker plans to sit out presidential election

Baker plans to sit out presidential election

BOSTON – After ruling out casting his ballot for the likely Republican, Democratic and Libertarian presidential tickets, Gov. Charlie Baker made it clear on Tuesday: he does not plan to vote for any presidential candidate.

"I would like to get some credit for the fact that rather than punting on the whole question of who I was going to vote for and saying it's a secret ballot and it's none of your business and all the rest, I just said I'm not going to vote for any of these people," Baker said on Boston Herald Radio.

Weld may pass anti-Trump muster but can he win Libertarians?
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Weld may pass anti-Trump muster but can he win Libertarians?

Evan Lips

BOSTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, tapped as a running mate by Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson, is no fan of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump's stance on immigration issues.

Weld, a registered Republican who lives in Canton, kicked off his bid to become vice president with a bang, telling the New York Times that he can "hear the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna," a reference to the birth of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, whenever he hears about Trump's plan to deport the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S.

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