[CaptainK]

One never Trumper gets replaced with another. What's up with Utah?

In October 2015, Cox endorsed Marco Rubio for the Republican Party nomination in the 2016 presidential primary. After Rubio withdrew, Cox endorsed Ted Cruz in March 2016. Of Donald Trump, the front-runner, Cox said: "We care a lot about decorum. We care about our neighbors. We are a good, kind people. He does not represent neither goodness nor kindness." He said he would not support Trump if he wins the Republican nomination: "I think he's disingenuous. I think he's dangerous. I think he represents the worst of what our great country stands for.... I won't vote for Hillary, but I won't vote for Trump, either."

[Lurkinanloomin]

Nothing but Cheap Labor Express stooges, same as SC

[Dr. Sivana]

What's up with Utah?

I am not a Mormon, so I can be corrected by one who n=knows more about them culturally, but Trump's ventures into coarseness may just rub them the wrong way, the way Kerry's smarmy condescension rubs me the wrong way. Also, the wall was his signature issue, and the whole missionary thing may depend on bodies freely going both in and out of the U.S.

[kenmcg]

The commies keep gaining!

[Wuli]

I think Cruz would not have been far from Trump on policy or judicial picks. They differ greatly in public style.

So Cox made a choice - backed Cruz - based on style. That also was not hard for a Republican who believed he was favoring a Conservative established Republican with a record vs a newly minted Republican with no public office record.

I am not a “never Trumper”, but in 2016 I think Cox felt most strongly against Trump based on style and on all he did not yet know about Trump the elected office holder vs what he felt he did know, from the record, about Cruz.

I would have preferred Cox to Huntsman anyway.