Mary Matalin, the former advisor to two Bush President’s and Vice President Cheney and married to James Carville, who was a Clinton advisor, is now a registered Libertarian.
She described herself as a “provisional Trump” voter and a “never Hillary,” referring to the leading Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Pressed Thursday about why she switched political parties, Matalin told Bloomberg Politics that she was a Republican in the “Jeffersonian, Madisonian sense.”
“I’m not a Republican for a party or a person,” she continued. “The Libertarian Party represents those constitutional principles that I agree with.”
Of Trump, Matalin said she liked his attitude and what she knew of his economic policies, adding: “I just don’t know enough. I think not only could he win, I think he could win in a landslide if he would stop his high schoolboy antics with women;
otherwise he’s going to force suburban women to Hillary.”
She said Conservatives were angry after two successive Presidential elections in which they lost and with what appeared to be no response from Washington as the party was “falling apart.”
Matalin is probably best known for her appearances on television as a staunch defender of Republican policies. For more than a decade, she appeared on CNN with her husband, James Carville, a Democratic strategist.
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