US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a moderated dialog with former Trump administration nationwide safety official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Vice President Kamala Harris‘ marketing campaign on Sunday flaunted over two dozen presidential endorsements from Republican occasion members, together with some who served in former President Donald Trump‘s administration.
Practically 30 GOP members have been cited as a part of the brand new “Republicans for Harris” initiative launched Sunday. These embrace Stephanie Grisham, former White Home press secretary beneath Trump, and nationwide safety official Olivia Troye — who labored as Vice President Mike Pence’s nationwide safety advisor. Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, Republican cupboard members beneath President Barack Obama, have been additionally listed.
By publicly defecting on the Republican presidential nominee, these officers depart a goal on their again for assaults from Trump.
“We now have to purge the Get together of folks that go in opposition to our Candidates, and make it tougher for a preferred Republican President to beat the Radical Left Lunatics. Geoff Duncan is a loser who’s disintegrating on his personal.” Trump posted on Reality Social on Saturday, referring to the previous lieutenant governor of Georgia who has endorsed Harris.
The Harris marketing campaign’s new initiative focusing on Republican voters comes two weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris. Since then, the vice chairman has loved a groundswell of early assist within the type of file donations, volunteer sign-ups and a surge within the polls — closing the voter hole in opposition to Trump.
Regardless of Harris’ preliminary momentum, she and Trump are nonetheless in tight race that might be determined by only a slim margin of voters in November. That statistical dead-heat is why the Harris marketing campaign is focusing on undecided Republicans inside who could also be persuadable in opposition to their occasion’s nominee.
“Donald Trump’s MAGA extremism is poisonous to the thousands and thousands of Republicans who now not imagine the occasion of Donald Trump represents their values and can vote in opposition to him once more in November,” mentioned Austin Weatherford, the Harris marketing campaign’s nationwide director of Republican outreach, in a memo.
“Vice President Harris and our marketing campaign are working additional time to earn the assist of my fellow Republicans who care about defending democracy and restoring decency,” he added.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
