“I will never vote for him, but I won’t have to. Because I think America is tired, and there are some absolutely strong, capable, morally upstanding, upstanding people, and that’s what I want. That’s what I want at my party and that’s what I want to see,” Bowers told host Jonathan Karl during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” The Arizona lawmaker called Trump a “demagogue” who maintains his base through “slowness and intimidation.” “I’ve thought, from time to time, that someone born the way they were, raised the way they were—has no idea what a hard life is. And what people have to go through in the real – in the real world. He has no idea what courage is,” Bowers said. Bowers’ comments were a reversal of his statements in June, when he said he would support the former president in a 2020 rematch. “If he is a candidate, if he was against Biden, I would vote for him again. Simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the county. In my view it was,” Bowers told The Associated Press before testifying in June to a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the US Capitol. In testimony before the House panel, Bowers rejected the former president’s claims that the two men had discussed rigging the 2020 presidential election in Arizona. Bowers said members of his own party called him a “traitor” after appearing before the committee. Trump called the congressman a “coward.” Manchin defends climate and tax deal with Schumer in multiple shows as Democrats cheer for Biden after big week Bowers said Sunday that he hoped Trump would never return to office. “I would certainly hope not. I certainly don’t trust that authority he would exercise.” Bowers is running for Arizona state Senate in this year’s midterms, and Trump has endorsed his challenger, David Farnsworth.
