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FIRST ON FOX: A dozen Republican White Home attorneys who served within the administrations of then-Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are backing Vice President Kamala Harris in her race in opposition to Republican nominee former President Donald Trump.
“We help Kamala Harris and her election as President as a result of we imagine that reinstating former President Trump would threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of legislation in our nation,” the attorneys wrote in a letter that the signatories first shared with Fox Information Digital.
The letter was launched Friday, the day after Harris delivered her nomination acceptance speech on the closing ceremony of the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago.
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Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage throughout Day 4 of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Heart in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
The signatories added that “we name on all patriotic Republicans, former Republicans, conservative and center-right residents, and impartial voters to place their love of nation above their social gathering and beliefs and be part of us in supporting Kamala Harris.”
The listing consists of Michael Luttig, the distinguished right-wing authorized scholar and retired federal choose who beforehand served as an assistant counsel to the president within the Reagan White Home. Luttig made headlines earlier this week by endorsing Harris because the Democratic conference bought underway.
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The letter states: “Donald Trump’s personal Vice President and a number of members of his administration and White Home employees on the highest ranges — in addition to former Republican nominees for president and vice chairman — have already declined to help his re-election.”
The signatories to the letter pointed to what they referred to as “the grave dangers posed by his (Trump’s) potential return to public workplace. Trump’s personal lawyer common and nationwide safety adviser have mentioned unequivocally that Donald Trump is unfit for workplace, harmful, and out of contact with actuality.”
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump factors to nationwide safety throughout a marketing campaign rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, August 21, 2024. (Picture by PETER ZAY/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
And citing the then-president’s efforts to overturn the outcomes of his 2020 election defeat to President Biden, the Republican attorneys argued that “Trump’s effort to forestall a peaceable switch of energy after his election loss proved past an inexpensive doubt that he was prepared to place his private pursuits above the legislation and the values of our constitutional democracy.”
“We can not be part of different former Republican officers who’ve condemned Trump with these devastating verdicts, but stay unwilling to vote for Harris,” they added. “We imagine this election presents a binary alternative, and Trump is completely disqualified.”
And so they accused Trump of “being responsible of great violations of our Structure, democracy, and the rule of legislation, and of remaining unfit, harmful, and out of contact with actuality.”
Trump’s quite a few indictments in 4 separate lawsuits courting again to final spring have bolstered help amongst Republicans as he fended off greater than a dozen opponents for the Republican Occasion’s 2024 presidential nomination.
His fundraising soared this spring after he was discovered responsible of all 34 felonies within the first legal trial of a former or present president within the nation’s historical past.
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Whereas Trump simply captured the Republican nomination as he sailed by means of the GOP primaries and caucuses, his final remaining rival — former ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley — continued to win as a lot as 20% of the vote in Republican contests lengthy after she dropped out of the race.
President Biden’s marketing campaign — which grew to become the Harris marketing campaign after the president’s huge announcement final month that he would droop his re-election marketing campaign — has spent months attempting to attraction to Republican voters disaffected with Trump.
In the course of the four-day conference in Chicago this week, Harris confirmed that Republicans help the vice chairman.
Amongst them have been former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois speaks on the Democratic Nationwide Conference on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information)
Trump has remodeled the Republican Occasion in dramatic methods since he first received the GOP nomination and took workplace in 2016, reworking the social gathering from a conservative-dominated social gathering to 1 dominated by the populist wing of MAGA (Make America Nice Once more) supporters and advocates.
The listing of signatories to the letter consists of, along with Luttig, (in alphabetical order) John B. Bellinger III, Senior Affiliate Counsel to the President and Normal Counsel to the NSC underneath George W. Bush, Phillip D. Brady, Deputy Counsel to the President underneath Reagan, Benedict S. Cohen, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan, Peter D. Keisler, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan, and Robert M. Kruger, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan.
Additionally included are John M. Mitnick, Affiliate Counsel to the President and Deputy Counsel, White Home Homeland Safety Council underneath George W. Bush, Alan Charles Raul, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan and Normal Counsel, OMB underneath Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Nicholas Rostow, Particular Assistant to the President for Nationwide Safety Affairs and Authorized Advisor to the NSC underneath Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Peter J. Rusthoven, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan, David B. Waller, Senior Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan, and Wendell L. Willkie II, Affiliate Counsel to the President underneath Reagan.
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Paul Steinhauser is a political reporter from New Hampshire.
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