LAS VEGAS — Most Republicans running for Congress in tossup seats might be distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but Danny Tarkanian is proving the exception.

A perennial candidate now seeking a House seat with a slight Democratic registration advantage, he’s dismissing the notion that the presidential contest is anything other than a binary choice.

“Why would I support Hillary Clinton?” Tarkanian, the Republican nominee in Nevada’s 3rd District, said in a recent interview. “There are two people that can be president in 2017. The other two that are on the ballot don’t have a chance.”

Nevada does not have a write-in option. Instead, it offers voters an unusual choice to cast a protest vote for none of the candidates on the ballot. GOP Rep. Joe Heck, whom Tarkanian hopes to succeed in the House, has said he cannot support Trump, but hasn’t made clear exactly what he will do in the voting booth. Heck is running for the state’s Senate seat, left open by retiring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid.

“The question is: do you want Hillary Clinton leading this nation at this most precarious time or would you want Donald Trump?” Tarkanian said. “I made it clear in my statement that I believe both of the candidates have faults, that millions of Americans … are going to have to make a choice based upon one of those two individuals with their faults. I believe the vision Hillary Clinton has for our country — open borders, one-payer health care system, more dysfunction in Washington, D.C., — the same status quo is the absolute worst direction our country could go.”