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Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:48 AM Feb 2021

Ex-GOP Officials Look to Form Anti-Trump Party [View all]

Ex-GOP Officials Look to Form Anti-Trump Party

February 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 148 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/10/ex-gop-officials-look-to-form-anti-trump-party/

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“Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party,” Reuters reports.

“The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists.”

“More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of ‘principled conservatism,’ including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law – ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.”

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