The former Governor of Louisiana said he would vote for Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Indian-American Bobby Jindal has announced he would vote for Donald Trump if he were to be the Republican party's nominee.
"I do think he'll be better than Hillary Clinton, I don't think it's a great set of choices. If he is the nominee, I'm going to be supporting my party's nominee. I'm not happy about it ... but I would vote for him over Hillary Clinton," Jindal yesterday told CNN in an interview.
Jindal, a former Governor of Louisiana, was himself a presidential candidate up until a few months ago. His popularity ratings dropped below one percentage soon after he launched a scathing attack against Trump from the National Press Club in 2015. Jindal had then described Trump as an "egomaniac" who was "devoid of substance" and "dangerous".
However, Jindal now says he would vote for Trump arguing that he is better than Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee. "I think Donald Trump has tapped into middle-class anxieties. He's doing well in part because voters are responding to what he is saying, he's saying, look, he'll fight for them," Jindal said hours before Trump won the Indiana primary and became the Republican presumptive nominee.
Jindal also added it would be tough for Trump to defeat Clinton. "I think Donald Trump is going to have the hardest time beating Hillary of all the candidates that ran for president," he said.
On Tuesday, US Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept to a commanding victory in Indiana on Tuesday, putting him on a glide path to the party's presidential nomination as Ted Cruz finally ended his campaign. The New York billionaire won decisively in a state where Cruz, his nearest rival, had hoped to show he was still a factor in the race for the Republican nomination.
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