Anti-Trump Republicans Urge GOP Voters to Back Democrats in 2022
The anti-Trump wing of the Republican party that emerged during the presidential election is continuing to work against the GOP's agenda, calling on conservative voters to back Democrats in the 2022 midterms and block Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy from taking back the House.
In a New York Times op-ed published Monday, Miles Taylor, a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, and Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey, urged Republican voters to support Democrat candidates as a last-ditch effort to divorce the party from the former president and to avoid having to start a new center-right party.
"Rational Republicans are losing the GOP civil war," Taylor and Whitman wrote. "And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democratic Party."
"It's a strategy that has worked," they added. "Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with 7 percent who voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states."
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