Reagan’s son: My father would not support Trump’s “garbage”

Michael Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan, said on Twitter that he can no longer back Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his father would not support him either.

He added that former first lady Nancy Reagan, if she were alive, would vote for Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

“No way do I or would my father support this garbage”, Michael Reagan wrote on Twitter Sunday night, referring to Trump’s remarks on the weekend at a Manheim, Pennsylvania, campaign rally accusing Clinton of having been unfaithful to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

The younger Reagan added, in another Twitter post, “My father would not support this kind of campaign, if this is what the Republican Party wants leave us Reagans out. Nancy would vote for HRC.”

The Republican Party considers former President Reagan, who governed from 1981-1989, to be the founder of the “conservative revolution” that brought the White House back into GOP hands after Jimmy Carter’s single-term presidency and linked the party’s identity with the free market.

Michael Reagan, 71, who has previously expressed criticism of Trump, was adopted by Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.

“Jane Wyman was my mother but I can tell u that Nancy would vote for Hillary and was appalled to hear people say he reminds them of RR”, he tweeted, referring with the initials to the late president.

The comments by the younger Reagan against Trump come in addition to those by other traditional GOP heavyweights, including former President George H.W. Bush - who was Reagan’s vice president and served as president himself from 1989-1993 - and his sons former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

George H. W. Bush, 92, is planning to vote in November for Clinton, according to what he told the niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, in September.

The real estate mogul’s atypical and turbulent campaign has motivated many members of - and key figures within - the Republican Party to express their rejection of Trump in the presidential election.

This group includes, in particular, many Republican congressmen and senators who are running for reelection on Nov. 8 and whose states have large Hispanic populations, one of the communities that has been most roundly criticized in the billionaire’s rhetoric on the stump.