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Greater than 100 former Republican officers, principally those that labored in nationwide safety or beforehand in varied GOP presidential administrations, have penned a letter endorsing Vice President Harris and warning in regards to the risks of a possible second Trump administration.
“We admire that many Republicans choose Donald Trump to Kamala Harris, for quite a lot of causes. We acknowledge and don’t disparage their potential issues,” the letter launched Wednesday reads. “However any potential issues pale compared to Donald Trump’s demonstrated chaotic and unethical conduct and disrespect for our Republic’s time-tested rules of constitutional governance.”
The signatories insisted of their letter that in the case of diplomacy, the previous president’s “unpredictable nature will not be the negotiating advantage he extols.” It added that Trump’s demeanor “invitations equally erratic conduct from our adversaries, which irresponsibly threatens reckless and harmful international penalties.”
The Wednesday letter comes roughly three weeks after greater than 200 former GOP officers, together with individuals who labored for former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, additionally got here out in favor of a Harris presidency. The letter additionally comes shortly after former Vice President Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, each indicated they might be voting for Harris as properly.
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John McCain, left, and Mitt Romney speak at a marketing campaign rally in 2008. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
The letter on Wednesday was primarily signed by officers who had beforehand labored in both one of many Bush administrations or beneath former President Reagan. Nonetheless, some former Republican members of Congress, together with Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger and Virginia’s Barbara Comstock, additionally signed the Wednesday letter.
In complete, it boasted 111 signatures however did embody not less than two repeats from the August letter endorsing Harris. One other identify seemed to be a 3rd repeat from the August letter, however Fox Information Digital couldn’t verify if it was the identical particular person forward of publication time. In the meantime, there have been additionally two signatories on the Wednesday letter who additionally signed the notorious October 2020 letter from dozens of intelligence neighborhood officers asserting that the Hunter Biden laptop computer story damaged by the New York Publish was “disinformation pushed by Russia.”
A Trump marketing campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, slammed the Wednesday letter’s signatories, arguing they’re “the identical individuals who obtained our nation into infinite overseas wars and profited off of them whereas the American folks suffered.”
“President Trump is the one president within the trendy period to not get our nation into any new wars,” Cheung stated.
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George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Pictures)
The letter on Wednesday pointed to a number of explanation why its signatories are supporting Harris for president. Amongst them have been that Harris has “persistently championed the rule of legislation, democracy, and our constitutional rules.” The letter additionally stated Harris has “pledged” to make sure the U.S. navy will proceed to be essentially the most deadly combating drive on the planet, and it highlighted her help for NATO, Israel and the bipartisan border safety act that failed this yr. The letter famous that Harris has pledged she’s going to appoint a Republican to her Cupboard “with the intention to encourage a variety of views and restore a measure of bipartisanship and comity to our home politics.”
On nationwide safety, the letter lauded Harris for what it described as her skill to “have interaction in orderly nationwide safety decision-making.” It added {that a} Harris presidency would probably be absent “the fixed drama and Cupboard turnover of the Trump administration.”
Nonetheless, throughout Harris’ tenure as vice chairman, she has come beneath scrutiny for making a poor workplace tradition and having a virtually 92% workers turnover price.
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In the meantime, the letter blasted Trump for cozying as much as U.S. adversaries: “Donald Trump’s susceptibility to flattery and manipulation by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, uncommon affinity for different authoritarian leaders, contempt for the norms of first rate, moral and lawful conduct, and chaotic nationwide safety decision-making are harmful qualities.”
Then-President Trump and North Korean chief Kim Jong-un are proven at their second summit assembly on Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Vietnam Information Company/Handout/Getty Pictures)
On Monday, Trump surrogate Tulsi Gabbard praised Trump for the “powerful work” he has performed participating with U.S. adversaries, which she insisted was a important a part of profitable U.S. diplomacy.
“President Trump did in his final administration what President Obama refused to do, what President Biden refused to do, what Kamala Harris has made clear she refuses to do, which is to exit and do this powerful work {that a} president and commander in chief has to do in diplomacy,” Gabbard stated. “Not simply hanging out with your mates and your allies and your companions, however really going out and speaking to your adversaries.”
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The Wednesday letter concluded by saying Trump couldn’t be entrusted “to help and defend the Structure” towards overseas and home enemies alike. “We imagine that Kamala Harris can, and we urge different People to hitch us in supporting her,” the letter stated. It additionally stated Trump ought to by no means be capable to maintain political workplace of any sort sooner or later.
At the moment, the Harris marketing campaign is making a concerted effort to focus on weak Republican voters, together with via paid media and grassroots-driven digital efforts. Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Ian Sams just lately informed Fox Information Digital that Harris “has Republican momentum proper now.”
“We’re happy with the bipartisan groundswell behind Vice President Harris,” Sams stated. “And we’ll proceed working each day to earn the help of Republican voters who desire a president like her who nonetheless believes in patriotism, freedom, and our Structure.”
