The brief, zany tenure of Travis County GOP Chairman Robert Morrow came to an end Friday, as party officials made clear the conspiracy theorist abandoned his post by running for president and he accepted their conclusion without question.
Inside a nondescript office park in Austin, party officials convened reporters to lay out their case, saying Morrow's application to be a write-in candidate for the White House, filed last week, "resulted in an immediate vacancy" at the top of the county party. Waiting in the lobby afterward was Morrow, wearing his trademark jester's hat and carrying the "Trump is a Child Rapist" sign that had got him booted from a rally for the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday in Austin.
"I'm in complete agreement with them because I'm running for president," Morrow said of party officials' conclusion. "It's clear: You can't be the president of the United States of America, or even run for president, and be the chairman of a political party, and I'm fine with that."