Wife Gayle McCormick dumps hubby Bill over Donald Trump

GAYLE McCormick ended her marriage of 22 years when she found out husband Bill wanted to vote for Donald Trump and it appears she isn’t the only one.

Gayle McCormick and husband of 22 years, Bill, split after he said he planned to vote for Donald Trump. Picture: Facebook

GAYLE McCormick ended her marriage of 22 years when she found out husband Bill wanted to vote for Donald Trump and it appears she isn’t the only one.

The Telegraph reports that Mrs McCormick, 73, who is a retired prison guard from California and a lifelong Democrat, says her husband’s revelation was a “deal breaker”.

“It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump,” said Mrs McCormick, who says she is a Bernie Sanders fan and a Democrat-leaning toward socialist.

“I felt like I had been fooling myself,” she added. “It opened up areas between us I had not faced before. I realised how far I had gone in my life to accept things I would have never accepted when I was younger.”

Bill McCormick didn’t even vote for Donald Trump in the end but saying he would was enough for wife Gayle to dump him. Picture: Facebook

Despite Mr McCormick changing his mind and writing in another Republican (Newt Gingrich) on his ballot paper, she said the damage was done.

“It really came down to the fact I needed to not be in a position where I had to argue my point of view 24/7. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing that,” she said.

Hillary Clinton’s message may have been Stronger Together but Gayle and Bill McCormick believe they are Better Apart under Donald Trump. Picture: Supplied

While Mrs McCormick has moved out of the home they shared, she says the former couple still plan to take their vacations together.

They also have no plans to get divorced, with Mrs McCormick saying “we’re too old for that.”

It is not just the McCormicks who have fallen out over the US election, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken from December 27 to Janaury 18, showing 13.4 per cent of those asked had ended a relationship with a family member or close friend over recent US politics.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 13.4 per cent of people had ended a relationship of close friendship over US politics. Picture: Reuters

A further 17.4 per cent of those polled said they had blocked a family member or close friend from social media.

It isn’t all bad news however — almost 21 per cent of people said they had become friends with someone they previously didn’t know as a result of the election.