US presidential election: Republicans who declare support for Kamala Harris

More than 200 Republicans have pledged to “vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz this November.” A similar group of anti-Trump Republicans, including several hundred former advisers to George W. Bush and John McCain, have endorsed the presidential campaign. Joe Biden in 2020.

“Of course, we have many real, ideological differences with Vice President Harris and Governor Walz. That is to be expected,” the Republicans wrote in the letter. At the same time, they emphasized that “the alternative is simply unacceptable.”

The letter criticized Trump's approach to foreign policy, among other things. It concluded with a call for moderate Republicans and independent conservatives to “take a bold stand again by voting for leaders who will seek consensus, not chaos; who will work to unite, not divide; who will make our country and our children proud.”

The letter was signed by, among others, John McCain's former chief of staff Mark Salter and Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who already spoke out against Trump at the Democratic National Convention last week.

George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney have all historically disapproved of Trump and have been targeted by the former president. McCain died in 2018, a decade after being the Republican presidential candidate. Romney was nominated four years later. Both Republicans lost to Barack Obama.

Senator Romney voted to convict Trump twice in his impeachment trial and has stressed that he is putting the future of the country in jeopardy.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the letter was “hilarious because nobody knows who these people are” who signed it. “They would rather watch the country burn than see President Trump successfully return to the White House to Make America Great Again,” he said.