United States Vice President Kamala Harris discusses reproductive legal rights at a project occasion at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 20, 2024.
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Three previous chairs of the Maine Republican Party “enthusiastically endorsed” Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for head of state over GOP candidate and previous President Donald Trump in an opinion piece released by Bangor Daily News on Monday.
“We led our party at a time when candidates of both parties were not only civil and believed in the rule of law, but, we believe, had the best interests of the state and entire nation foremost in their hearts, even when we disagreed on policies,” created Robert A.G. Monks, Ken Cole and Ted O’Meara.
“We see these same positive characteristics are on full display in Vice President Harris and her candidacy. Sadly, they are completely lacking in her opponent,” they created.
Monks, Cole and O’Meara slammed what they called Trump’s dissentious unsupported claims, applauding on the other hand Harris’ dedication to end up being “a president for all Americans, regardless of political party.”
If chosen, Harris has actually stated, she would love to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet.
The triad created that Trump’s tax obligation and profession plans, that include a danger to enforce a 100% toll on imports from nations that “leave” the united state buck, will certainly “hurt Maine workers.”
They likewise slammed Trump’s setting on the battle inUkraine Trump was asked a number of times at theSept 10 governmental dispute whether it remained in the most effective rate of interests of the United States for Ukraine to completely remove attacking Russian pressures. He responded to by stating that he desired the battle to quit, however he did not recommend Ukraine’s sovereignty.
“We believe another Trump presidency would make our world a far more dangerous place,” the previous chairs created.
A representative for the Trump project did not quickly respond to an ask for discuss the op-ed.
Additionally, the previous chairs took a stab at the more comprehensive Republican Party in their letter, declaring that much of the management of the celebration “has joined the cult of Trump.”
“Each of us has had the honor of traveling the state of Maine to recruit and support candidates and to talk about the values that a big-tent Republican Party once stood for. Trump’s MAGA Republican Party is unrecognizable to us,” the previous chairs created.
Both Cole and O’Meara chaired the Maine Republican Party in the 1990s. Monks competed Senate in 1996, however shed the GOP main to Susan Collins, that won the basic political election and has actually held her seat ever since, as Maine’s longest-serving participant ofCongress He was likewise among the leaders of a “Maine Republicans for Obama” project team in the 2008 governmental political election.
An expanding variety of Republicans have actually appeared on behalf of Harris’ quote for head of state in the previous month. On Sunday, a bipartisan team of 741 previous armed forces and nationwide safety and security authorities openly backedHarris Separately, recently, 111 Republican previous nationwide safety and security and diplomacy authorities backed Harris, calling Trump “unfit” to act as u.s. president.
In an initiative to make the most of the tiny however singing resistance in the GOP rankings, the Harris project released “Republicans for Harris” inAugust Since after that, Harris has actually safeguarded a collection of recommendations from GOP numbers consisting of, significantly, previous Vice President Dick Cheney, that offered in the George W. Bush management.
