TOPLINE
Although Trump has largely taken control of the Republican Party and the loyalty of GOP officials, a number of prominent former GOP officials, and even some of his ex-associates, have gone out in favor of former vice presidents Joe Biden.
Former CEO and Hewlett Packard and Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.
KEY FACTS
Former Prime Minister John Kasich, who challenged Trump for the 2016 GOP nomination, has been one of Biden’s most ardent Republican supporters, and on Monday praised his ‘experience and his wisdom and his decency’ at the Democratic convention.
Biden has won the honors of four Republican cabinet secretaries; Obama administration Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, and Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell and EPA Director Christine Whitman, who appeared alongside Kasich at the DNC.
Anthony Scaramucci, who served just two weeks as White House communications director, supported Biden and called Trump “crazy,” while former Homeland Security Secretary Miles Taylor accused Trump of disaster relief for blue states. memory and “magical authorities” claimed above the law.
Carly Fiorina, a former CEO of Hewlett Packard and GOP presidential candidate who was briefly the running mate of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Said she could not support Trump and that “elections are binary choices,” while Meg Whitman, another Hewlett Packard CEO, told the DNC on Monday that Trump “has no idea how to run a business, let alone an economy.”
Former Rep. New York’s Susan Molinari also spoke to former Reps at the Democratic convention on Monday. Charles Djou of Hawaii and Joe Walsh of Illinois, a former tea party that challenged Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination and for Biden voted in the open Democratic primary in Illinois in March, calling Trump a “terrible man” who “must be defeated.”
Cindy McCain, the widow of screenwriter John McCain and mother of The view host Meghan McCain (who also signed Biden) told a video for the Democratic convention detailing her late husband’s “unlikely friendship” with Biden.
Former Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania endorsed Biden ahead of the third night of the Democratic convention, declaring, “It’s a sad state of affairs when a president signs a 9/11 truther,” referring to Trump’s embrace of the congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor of Georgia Greene.
A group of 73 former U.S. security officials in Republican administrations, including former CIA and FBI chiefs and Trump officials, accused Biden of claiming that Trump’s “corrupt behavior makes him incapable of serving as president. . “
Key background
Numerous Republican media figures, campaign strategists and government officials have even organized PACs dedicated to supporting Biden, such as Republican voters against Trump and, more recently, 43 Alumni for Biden. The most striking among them is the Lincoln Project, whose shameful attacks on Trump have won the hearts of anti-Trump opposition Democrats.
Surprising fact
The last living former Republican president, George W. Bush, has said he will not support Trump. Also, his brother Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida who was ruthlessly humiliated by Trump when they fought for the GOP nomination in 2016. Trump’s former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and former Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly have both opposed Trump as well, with Mattis calling him “the first president in my life not trying to unite the American people – does not even care if he tries” and Kelly said he “we had something extra choices. ” Other ex-Trump officials have also spoken out, including Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, communications officer Omarosa Manigault, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Large number
5. That’s how many sitting Republican senators are weighing votes against Trump, according to sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.). Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has said he will not vote for Trump and his wife may enroll, while Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she ‘wrestles’ with the decision. Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) Also said he will not vote for Trump and is considering a vote for Biden.
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