Hundreds More Former GOP Officials Endorse Harris – Mother Jones

A whole bunch extra Republicans say they will be voting for Harris in November.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Name/ZUMA

The pattern continues: Republicans are defecting from former President Donald Trump in droves.

Greater than 200 Republican officers who as soon as labored for former President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency and warned of the risks of a second Trump time period in an open letter launched Monday.

The letter, first reported by USA In the present day, outlines each the overseas and home risks of a second Trump time period: “At dwelling, one other 4 years of Donald Trump’s chaotic management, this time targeted on advancing the harmful targets of Challenge 2025, will harm actual, on a regular basis individuals and weaken our sacred establishments,” the group wrote. “Overseas, democratic actions might be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin whereas turning their backs on our allies. We will’t let that occur.”

The signatories vary from former volunteers, interns, and assistants to onetime high-level officers within the White Home and Senate, together with Jean Becker, former chief of workers for twenty-four years to George H.W. Bush; Joe Donoghue, Senate stalwart and McCain’s former legislative director; and David Nierenberg, nationwide finance chair for Romney’s 2012 presidential marketing campaign. “In fact, we now have loads of sincere, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That’s to be anticipated,” they wrote. “The choice, nevertheless, is just untenable.”

Steven Cheung, Trump’s spokesperson, stated in a press release supplied to Mom Jones: “It’s hilarious as a result of no person is aware of who these persons are. They might reasonably see the nation burn down than to see President Trump efficiently return to the White Home to Make America Nice Once more.”

Romney already stated earlier this 12 months he would “completely not” vote for Trump, however he doesn’t seem to have publicly stated who he’ll vote for. The New York Occasions reported in 2020 that Bush wouldn’t be voting for Trump, citing “individuals acquainted with [his] considering”; Bush doesn’t seem to have addressed the subject to date for the upcoming election. Spokespeople for Bush and Romney didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Mom Jones. McCain withdrew his help for Trump within the 2016 election after the Entry Hollywood tape leaked through which Trump bragged about committing sexual assault.

The dissent inside Republican ranks comes simply days after a number of distinguished Republicans—together with some ex-Trump officers—sang Harris’ praises on the Democratic Nationwide Conference and urged conservatives to vote for her over Trump. On Friday, a dozen former White Home attorneys who served below three Republican presidents—each Bushes and Ronald Reagan—additionally endorsed Harris over Trump, alleging that he would “threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of regulation in our nation,” Fox Information first reported. And as I reported earlier this month, the Harris marketing campaign launched a bunch aimed toward wooing Trump-skeptical voters to their ticket. A Harris-Walz marketing campaign official pointed to those examples as proof of how the marketing campaign has carried out outreach to average and impartial voters.

Trump, in the meantime, appears to have bother garnering help from his former workers, not to mention from individuals throughout the aisle. In line with a report printed within the Washington Submit earlier this month, solely about half of Trump’s former cupboard has overtly endorsed his reelection bid.