Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson says now that Cruz is out, he’ll enthusiastically back Donald Trump in November over Hillary Clinton:
DAILY MAIL – ‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch Phil Robertson will support Donald Trump in the fall despite endorsing his rival Ted Cruz four months ago, he said Monday.
The reality TV star told DailyMail.com that ‘I’ll be enthusiastically behind him.’
‘Wow! Such a great honor to have Phil’s endorsement,’ the Republican front-runner responded Tuesday.
‘His son, Willie, has become a great friend of my son, Don. What a great family.’
Robertson’s son Willie, now the CEO of Phil’s ‘Duck Commander’ company, crossed his father in January to endorse Trump early on in the Republican primary process.
‘I’ll be loyal to the Republican Party,’ Robertson said during an interview about ‘Torchbearer,’ a documentary film project that will receive a screening for distributors next week on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival.
The long-bearded hunting enthusiast said his evangelical Christian stripe made him feel ‘safer’ with Cruz.
‘I went for Cruz because I knew that he was a strict constitutionalist, and I know that he does vet his thinking through the Bible like I do, and so I thought “Hey, I can identify with this cat”,’ he said.
‘It was a way to share the good news of Jesus with people when I spoke on his behalf.’
‘But now he’s out. Trump’s in. So I’ll vote for him, no question.’
I have a lot of respect for Phil Robertson, and that doesn’t change with his decision to back Trump. As I’ve noted before we are between a rock and a hard place with the way things have wrapped up, so I can’t blame anyone for siding with Trump over Hillary. And I won’t.