Flake fires back at Trump, warns GOP

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is firing back against Donald Trump with a warning for the Republican Party at large.

The Republican presidential nominee denounced Flake as "very weak and ineffective," particularly with respect to illegal immigration, in two separate tweets Sunday after the senator said he would still not vote for Trump or Hillary Clinton in November. Flake, when asked, said Clinton could win his state, remarking upon Trump's rhetoric "and the characterizations of, you know, many of the state's population, [that] have put the state in play."


Flake defended his remark in another sharply worded statement, saying that “Hillary Clinton thinks she can win Arizona and it is because Donald Trump is unwilling to propose serious solutions to the problems facing our state."

"What Trump has been willing to do is say terrible things about women, mock the disabled, disparage minorities, impugn the character of POWs, and go after the Gold Star parents of a fallen U.S. soldier," Flake said, referring to multiple incidents throughout the presidential campaign.

"I’m not OK with that, and I’m going to keep speaking out until he changes the tone of his campaign. If he refuses to do so, Republicans will lose a lot more than the election in November," Flake warned.