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GOP officials are urging GOP voters to back Democrats in 2022 to save party from 'pro-Trump extremists'
Business Insider ^ | October 12, 2021 | Cheryl Teh

Posted on 10/12/2021 5:10:46 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Two GOP officials have urged Republicans to vote Democratic in the 2022 midterm elections to bolster the party from candidates they described as "pro-Trump extremists."

Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, wrote a New York Times op-ed that ran Monday. Taylor is best known for anonymously writing a 2018 op-ed article in The Times describing a "resistance" of Trump administration officials working to tamper what he called the former president's "worst inclinations."

Together, Taylor and Whitman asked that the GOP's base consider supporting Democrats so "conservative pragmatists" could retake control of the party.

"Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war," they 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 Democrats."

They added: "It's a strategy that has worked. Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with seven percent who voted for him in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states."

"The best hope for the rational remnants of the Republican Party is for us to form an alliance with Democrats to defend American institutions, defeat far-right candidates, and elect honorable representatives next year — including a strong contingent of moderate Democrats," Taylor and Whitman wrote.

Their strategy would involve GOP voters supporting Democrats like Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona in what they called "difficult races" likely to feature Trump-supported Republicans. They also advocated defending what they called a "small nucleus of courageous Republicans" such as Reps. Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Peter Meijer.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
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1 posted on 10/12/2021 5:10:46 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

de ja vu? I thought I saw this headline this afternoon?


2 posted on 10/12/2021 5:12:34 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Trump20162020

BS-insider can go (blank) it’s self.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 5:13:14 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: Trump20162020

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4002842/posts

Not the same source, but it is the same story.


4 posted on 10/12/2021 5:13:44 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Trump20162020

CCP Cheryl Teh?


5 posted on 10/12/2021 5:14:00 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: Trump20162020

How low can the GOPe go?


6 posted on 10/12/2021 5:14:18 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Trump20162020

official what??? if they hold any elected position they should be gone


7 posted on 10/12/2021 5:15:29 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Trump20162020

Seriesly, who funds these ‘tards?


8 posted on 10/12/2021 5:15:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Trump20162020

Primarying these gutless wonders of the GOPukes is so very crucial.


9 posted on 10/12/2021 5:15:54 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: Trump20162020

Yea...how’z that democrat control workin for us?


10 posted on 10/12/2021 5:15:59 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Trump20162020

RINO traitors think American Patriots who love their constitutional individual liberty and hate oppressive unconstitutional government are “extremists”.

I hate them as much or more than I hate the Left because they are Leftists in the Right’s clothing.


11 posted on 10/12/2021 5:16:04 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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12 posted on 10/12/2021 5:16:10 PM PDT by Eddie01
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15 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! 16 So because you are lukewarm— neither hot nor cold— I am about to vomit you out of My mouth! 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.…

Revelation 3:15-17


13 posted on 10/12/2021 5:16:43 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: Trump20162020

How flaming stupid.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 5:17:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Trump20162020

RINO’s Nothing much else that explains their attitudes.


15 posted on 10/12/2021 5:17:29 PM PDT by Bellagio
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To: Trump20162020

GOP Officials? You mean Has-been Nobody Losers?


16 posted on 10/12/2021 5:18:00 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: Trump20162020

We have to help the Democrats destroy the country to save it. These people are vile pukes.


17 posted on 10/12/2021 5:19:45 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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Look how much energy and money the GOP will put into getting Liz Cheney re-elected.

Pretty obvious

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18 posted on 10/12/2021 5:20:33 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Eddie01

Looks like the movie is about done....


19 posted on 10/12/2021 5:21:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Trump20162020

In other words they are telling Republican voters to go against their religious convictions and vote for Democrat baby killers. Just for suggesting. . . .they are guilty as well. Don’t they realize God’s in charge of everyone’s next breath.


20 posted on 10/12/2021 5:21:36 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com - Our ONLY hope! )
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