US Election: Kamala Harris now has the assist of over 200 former Republican presidential staffers.
Washington:
Donald Trump has confronted a jolt from throughout the Republican get together. Greater than 200 Republicans who beforehand labored for former US President George W Bush have written an open letter endorsing Kamala Harris for the highest submit as a substitute of their very own get together candidate Donald Trump.
This comes weeks forward of the US Presidential election scheduled in early November.
In response to Fox Information, a gaggle of Republican officers, together with a number of former aides to George HW Bush, has endorsed Kamala Harris, a Democrat and present Vice President, urging “average Republicans and conservative independents” to assist her.
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time this has occurred. Within the earlier US election, held in 2020, the identical group had opposed Donald Trump.
“4 years in the past, President George W Bush, the late Sen John McCain, and then-Gov Mitt Romney alumni got here collectively to warn fellow Republicans that re-electing President Trump could be a catastrophe for our nation. In these declarations we said the plain reality, every predicting that one other 4 years of a Trump presidency would irreparably injury our beloved democracy,” the letter stated, which was printed on Monday by US-based information organisation USA Right this moment.
“We reunite right this moment, joined by new George HW Bush alumni, to bolster our 2020 statements and, for the primary time, collectively declare that we’re voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov Tim Walz this November,” the letter added.
Whereas acknowledging important coverage disagreements with Kamala Harris, the Republican officers emphasised that the choice is untenable. “After all, now we have loads of trustworthy, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That is to be anticipated. The choice, nonetheless, is just untenable,” the letter stated.
