GOP Sen. Mike Lee: Trump Must Step Aside [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports:

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), one of very few Republican senators who never endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, called tonight for the nominee to “step aside” and asked conservatives to find a new candidate. Echoing many Republicans who see Trump handing the presidency to Hillary Clinton, Lee said that the candidate’s insults of women were distracting from election-winning principles.

“Your conduct, sir, is the distraction,” said Lee, speaking on Facebook live not long after Trump’s much-delayed apology video. “It’s the distraction from the very principles that will help us win in November. You yourself, sir, Mr. Trump, have stated repeatedly that the goal, the objective, has got to be to defeat Hillary Clinton in November. I couldn’t agree more. Mr. Trump, I respectfully ask you, with all due respect to step aside. Step down. Allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles.”

Lee’s video, recorded from his home in Utah, aligned him with the very small number of elected Republicans calling on Trump to quit. The first three — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), and Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) — were fighting re-election bids that require crossover support from Democrats.