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Former Republican congressman Ray LaHood has endorsed Joe Biden, donating to his campaign for president.

LaHood, 74, is the father of Republican Illinois Rep. Darin LaHood, who helps lead President Trump's reelection efforts in their home state.

The elder LaHood, an Obama administration colleague of Biden, said he wouldn't vote for Trump, a decision he also made in 2016. During the last election cycle, he cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the same time LaHood was Transportation secretary.

“The way he treats people,” Ray LaHood told Illinois's Journal Star. “The way that he disparages people. The way that he represents our country. He’s not my kind of politician.”

LaHood was then-Republican House Minority Leader Robert Michel's chief of staff from 1982 to 1994 before he was elected to Congress later that year. He represented much of central and western Illinois from 1995 to 2009. In a bipartisan gesture, LaHood was then tapped by incoming President Barack Obama to be Transportation secretary, a post he held from 2009 to 2013.

It was as a member of Obama's cabinet, LaHood developed working relationships with Clinton and Biden, who became vice president after 36 years as a Delaware senator.

“We traveled the country,” LaHood said of Biden, 77. “We created the kind of jobs that President Obama wanted from our part of the stimulus. And I think he’s the kind of person that could lead our country in a totally different direction and bring America together again.”

But LaHood wouldn't support Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont or Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts because "they’re too far left for me.”

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Despite his distaste for Trump, LaHood believed House Democrats' pursuit of impeachment was "a waste of time" since the Senate was unlikely to convict and remove the president from office.

“But when Trump is gone, we’ll go back to some semblance of the Republican Party that I grew up in, that Bob Michel grew up in, that Ronald Reagan really helped continue, as well as the Bushes," he said.

LaHood himself earned a measure of impeachment fame on Dec. 19, 1998. As a Republican congressman, he presided over the House as the GOP majority voted for two impeachment articles against President Bill Clinton, related to the Monica Lewinsky affair.