Utah Pol Bolts GOP After RNC: Party's Direction ‘Makes Me Want To Cry’

A Utah state senator announced that he was leaving the GOP in despair after attending the Republican National Committee last week.

Sen. Mark Madsen (R-UT) said Monday that his experience as a Utah delegate confirmed all of his concerns about the future of the party.

"Every decision and inclination I had before was reinforced," Madsen said in a press conference where he announced he would become a Libertarian, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Madsen, a three term senator from District 13, supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and was disappointed by convention-goers booing Cruz off stage when he urged Republicans to vote their conscience.

Like Cruz, Madsen seems himself as a strict constitutional conservative and believes that “the scales tipped” away in the Republican Party from an emphasis on states’ rights and entitlement reform.


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