Exclusive: Hundreds of George W. Bush administration officials to back Biden, group says

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are set to endorse Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden, people involved in the effort said, the latest Republican-led group coming out to oppose the re-election of Donald Trump.

The officials, who include Cabinet secretaries and other senior people in the Bush administration, have formed a political action committee - 43 Alumni for Biden - to support the former vice president in his Nov. 3 race, three organizers of the group told Reuters. Bush was the country’s 43rd president.

The Super PAC will launch on Wednesday with a website and Facebook page, they said. It plans to release “testimonial videos” praising Biden from high-profile Republicans and will hold get-out-the-vote efforts in the most competitive states.

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“We know what is normal and what is abnormal, and what we are seeing is highly abnormal. The president is a danger,” said Jennifer Millikin, one of the 43 Alumni organizers, who worked on Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and later in the General Services Administration.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-republicans-exclus-idUSKBN24253R

[LisaM]

1. They don't like what their Supreme Court hath wrought?

I'm sorry, but I just wish once someone would call these yoyos out on the harm the Bush administration did, and how Citizens United and the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act led - even if indirectly, though I'd say directly - to Trump's election.

I guess better late than never, but it galls me that they seem to absolve themselves of any blame.

[MosheFeingold]

2. I could live without them

They're the swamp everyone hates.

[ArizonaLib]

3. Yes - those 'folks' specialize in jumping out in front of parades

Mission accomplished

[ArizonaLib]

4. Nice political party you got there - shame if something should happen to it.

Like rats jumping ship - grabbing onto anything in order to live to infest another day. They will be back to try and kill the social safety net programs and wage war soon enough.

[Kaleva]

5. People who worked for the friend of the Obamas and Clintons.

[melman]

6. No comment

[McKim]

7. Too Much Even for THEM!

So Trump is even too much for these despicable war mongers and war profiteers! I welcome their help but do not want them to rule again!!!!

[George II]

8. Excellent news. This should bring in a bunch of needed republican voters.

[diva77]

9. Poli. Sci. 101 -- Corporations, special interests will give $$$ to a candidate regardless of party

once that particular candidate gathers momentum.

[EarthFirst]

10. Endorsements are cheap...

I’ll believe this wave of opposition once the ballots reveal their convictions.

[Cha]

11. The president is a danger," No Kidding!