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All four people involved in the discussion told Reuters.
Earlier in the debate, former Republican elected officials, former officials in the administration of former Republican presidents (Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George Bush Jr., and D. Trump) were former Republican ambassadors and strategists, the people said.
More than 120 Republicans held a remote Zoom meeting last Friday to discuss a future secessionist group that operates on a platform of “ideological conservatism” that includes respect for the Constitution and the rule of law. According to the participants of the meeting, it was these ideas that contaminated Mr. Trump.
The future group’s plan is not only to nominate candidates in some elections, but also to support center-right candidates, whether they are Republicans, Democrats or independents if their own candidates are not nominated in those elections, Republicans said in the debate.
Evan McMullin, a former policy director in the House Republican Conference that led the 2016 U.S. presidential election as an independent candidate, told Reuters he was one of the organizers of a meeting on the Zoom platform that, along with others, Former officials, he was concerned about Trump’s behavior and track record, which has recently been changed by the Republican Party.
The other three people who contacted Reuters confirmed that a remote meeting had been held to discuss the possible formation of a divided party, but asked not to be identified.
Participants in the meeting included John Mitnick, General Counsel of the Trump Administration’s United States Department of Homeland Security, former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent, Elizabeth Neumann, Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Homeland Security of the Trump Administration, and Miles Taylor, another former Mr. Trump and an official with the US Department of Homeland Security.
The discussions highlighted deep divisions within the party, exacerbated by Trump’s false claims about rigged elections and the assault on the Capitol on January 6. Many Republicans remain loyal to the former president, but others want the party to take a different path.
The United States House of Representatives on January 13 voted to accuse Trump of inciting the rebellion and called on thousands of supporters to retreat to Capitol Hill on the day that Congress collapsed to confirm the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Meeting participants said they were particularly concerned and saddened by the fact that more than half of the Republicans in Congress (eight senators and 139 members of the House of Representatives) still voted against Biden’s victory shortly after. the assault on the Capitol.
Many Republican senators have also indicated that they will not support the impeachment of D. Trump in the Senate impeachment process.
“A large part of the Republican Party is radicalizing American democracy and threatening it. The party needs to refocus on truth and reason and discover ideals. Otherwise something new will be needed,” McMullin told Reuters.
The losers concluded
When asked about the debate over the new party, Trump’s adviser Jason Miller responded, “Those losers already left the Republican Party when they voted for Biden.”
The representative of the Republican National Committee had in mind the last statement of the representative of the committee, Ronna McDaniel.
“If we continue to attack each other and focus on attacking Republicans, if there are disputes and disagreements within our party, we will lose the 2022 election. The only way to win is by joining,” McDaniel told Fox News in January.
The White House, led by Biden, has not yet responded to a request for comment.
According to McMullin, just over 40 percent of last week’s Zoom meeting supported the idea of secession and the creation of a third national party. Another option being considered is forming a “faction” that operates within or outside of the existing Republican Party.
Possible names for the new party were considered: Unity Party and Right Center Party. If it was decided to form a faction anyway, one of its names under consideration was that of the right-wing Republican Republicans.
Meeting participants understand that the political landscape in the United States is shrouded in vestiges of previous failed attempts to create a third national party.
“But now the need for a new political party is incomparably greater than what I have experienced in my life,” said one of the meeting participants.
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