More than 200 influential Republican advisers announced their support for Harris over Trump – Mail Business Newspaper

‘Orthodox conservative’ aides who worked for influential people, including former Republican presidents and presidential candidates, turned their backs on former President Donald Trump.

According to USA Today on the 26th (local time), 238 aides who worked for influential people, including former Republican presidents and presidential candidates, wrote an open letter expressing their support for the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Aides who worked for former President George W. Bush and the late Senators John McCain and Mitt Romney, who were Republican presidential candidates in 2008 and 2012, signed the letter.

This letter said he would vote for Vice President Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in the presidential election scheduled for November.

They drew a line at former President Trump, saying, “Honestly, ideologically, there are many things I disagree with Vice President Harris and Governor Walz,” but “no there is no place to support the other side.”

“At home, we will see four more years of Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency, this time focused on the dangerous goals of Project 2025, hurting ordinary citizens and undermining our sanctuaries,” they said. said JD Vance , bow to dictators like Vladimir Putin, and put our democratic movement at risk of instability.”

At the same time, he raised his voice, saying, “We cannot sit idly by and watch this situation happen. “

Previously, in the 2020 presidential election, approximately 150 employees who worked for the above three opposed former President Trump and expressed support for President Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, Senator Romney was the only Republican senator to vote for the impeachment of former President Trump in 2020, and said he would not support former President Trump in an election this year’s president.

Former Senator McCain played a leading role in the anti-Trump forces within the party until his death in 2018. Former Senator McCain’s widow also announced her support for the President Biden in the 2020 presidential election.