Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP Phil Donato has declined to endorse his leader Robert Borsak's view that democracy in NSW is at risk if US president Donald J. Trump is not re-elected for a second term next month.
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"You have to agree with Alan Jones, forget about whether you like Donald Trump or not, it's about the culture wars we are engaged in right across the western world," wrote Mr Borsak on Facebook.
"We see it here in Australia we see it here in New South Wales.
"We better hope that Trump wins, otherwise democracy as we know it freedom of speech as we know it and many of the other ordinary freedoms we take for granted, will disappear."
"I don't check on Facebook all that often, to be honest," Mr Donato said, when asked if he had read and endorsed Mr Borsak's comments.
"You're best off talking to him about that."
When pressed on whether he backed his leader's views about democracy and freedom of speech in Orange and elsewhere being reliant on Trump staying in the White House, Mr Donato said: "I don't get involved in American politics, to be honest.
"I'm going to sit on the fence. You'll have to talk to Robert. It's a bit of a circus over there, isn't it?"
Americans go to the polls on Tuesday November 3, and the next president will be inaugurated on Wednesday January 20, 2021.
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