More than 200 Republicans who worked for President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, warning in a letter that a second Trump presidency \u201cwill hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The open letter with the endorsement was first published Monday in USA Today, with 238 signatures.<\/p>\n
The group of former Bush, McCain and Romney staffers issued a similar letter supporting Joe Biden when he ran against Trump in 2020. In their new, pro-Harris letter, alumni from those three top Republicans were joined by at least five former staffers to the late President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n
In the letter, the GOP alumni wrote that they are voting for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, despite policy differences.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those who signed the pro-Harris letter include Jean Becker, George H.W. Bush\u2019s chief of staff; Mark Salter and Chris Koch, former chiefs of staff for McCain; David Nierenberg, Romney\u2019s 2012 campaign finance chair; and David Garman, undersecretary for energy under George W. Bush.<\/p>\n
The letter is not only supportive of Harris but critical of Trump. In it, the Republican alumni say Trump presents a threat to the United States and countries around the world, saying that he and his \u201cacolyte,\u201d running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), \u201ckowtow to dictators like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies. We can\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group also wrote that \u201cmoderate Republicans and conservative independents in key swing states\u201d were key in securing Biden\u2019s 2020 victory as they \u201cput country far before party\u201d \u2014 and that they must once again \u201ctake a brave stand\u201d in this election and support Harris over Trump.<\/p>\n
In response to the letter, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in an email that the group \u201cwould rather see the country burn down than to see President Trump successfully return to the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter highlights the continued divisions among Republicans over the party\u2019s embrace of Trump. At the Democratic National Convention last week, several Republicans came out in support of Harris.<\/p>\n
Stephanie Grisham, who served as Trump\u2019s press secretary as well as chief of staff to first lady Melania Trump, described her evolution from \u201ctrue believer\u201d to a critic of the former president, saying that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was her last straw, The Washington Post reported. Grisham also claimed in her speech that behind closed doors, Trump mocked his supporters as \u201cbasement dwellers.\u201d (In response, the Trump campaign described her as a \u201cstone cold loser.\u201d)<\/p>\n
Other Republicans who spoke at the convention included John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., and former congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
More than 200 Republicans who worked for President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, warning in a letter that a second Trump presidency \u201cwill hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions.\u201d The open letter with the endorsement was first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}