Because he's a stinking RINO who thinks he needs to appeal to those elusive "undecided" voters. He wants to be a "nice" Republican.
No lapel pin....
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The only thing going for Ed (with me) is that we’ve had the carpetbagging Clintonista T-Mac as Governor & I don’t think I could stomach another Democrat .... even if the Repub is Democrat-lite/Uniparty. We’ll see how it goes further down the road - at this moment, Ed’s offended me & pretty much lost my vote with his Trump bashing.