Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, backed away from his earlier endorsement of former President Donald Trump on Sunday. “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 and right people, and that’s what I want. That’s what I want in my party and that’s what I want to see,” she said. Bowers to Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.” Bowers, a one-time Trump supporter, told The Associated Press that he would vote for Trump again if he were Biden’s opponent, “simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country.” Since then, he has testified before the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, drawing criticism from members of his own party, including the former president. “I may not, in the eyes of men, hold the right views or act in accordance with their vision or beliefs, but I do not take this current situation lightly, fearfully or vindictively,” the Arizona congressman said. the committee: “I don’t want to be a winner by cheating. I won’t play by laws I swore allegiance to.” Some Arizona Republicans have been champions of Trump’s debunked claims of election fraud in 2020 — even trying to pass a bill that would allow the state legislature to overturn the election. Bowers scuttled the Republican-backed bill before it became law. His view now is that Trump should not be in office. “I certainly don’t trust that authority that he would exercise,” Bowers told ABC. He added: “At times I thought that someone was born the way they were, raised the way they were — they have no idea what a hard life is. And what people have to go through in the real world. He has no idea what courage is,” Bowers continued. Bowers faces a Trump-endorsed candidate in the state’s Aug. 2 Senate primary.