WASHINGTON: More than 200 Republicans who previously served under former President George W. Bush and late Senator John McCain have written an open letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
The cohort of Republican officials, which also includes aides to former President George H.W. Bush, earlier had sought to rally voters against former President Donald Trump in 2020.
In their letter, the officials urged moderate Republicans and independents to vote for Harris. In the letter, published by USA Today they said: “Four years ago, President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, and then-Gov. Mitt Romney alumni came together to warn fellow Republicans that re-electing President Trump would be a disaster for our nation.
In those declarations we stated the plain truth, each predicting that another four years of a Trump presidency would irreparably damage our beloved democracy.”
The endorsement from GOP (Grand Old Party) officials follows a separate endorsement from a dozen Republican White House lawyers who worked under former President Ronald Reagan, as well as under both Bush administrations. The officials argued that returning to a Trump administration “would threaten democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country.”
The letter included nearly 240 signatures which described Trump’s leadership as “chaotic” and implied the former president wants to advance the goals of Project 2025 – a Republican blueprint for a potential GOP administration.
Meanwhile, the endorsement letter also compared Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying they have turned their backs on U.S. allies. “We can’t let that happen,” the officials wrote.
In response to the letter, Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung termed it hilarious because nobody knows who these people are.
