Harris launches 'Republicans for Harris' to win over GOP voters | AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Sunday was launching “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump’s candidacy. The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris’ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week, the campaign said. The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement. Her team is trying to create “a permission structure” for GOP voters who would otherwise have a difficult time voting for Harris. The effort will rely heavily on Republican-to-Republican voter contact, with the belief that the best way to get a Republican to vote for Harris is to hear directly from another Republican making the same choice. Trump’s “extremism is toxic to the millions of Republicans who no longer believe the party of Donald Trump represents their values” and will vote against him again in November, said Harris’ national director of Republican outreach, Austin Weatherford. He said the campaign would be “showing up and taking the time every single day to earn the vote of Republicans who believe in putting country over party and know that every American deserves a president who will protect their freedoms and a commander in chief who will put the best interests of the American people above their own.”
Smart of the Harris campaign to empower local Republicans in swing states to do Republican outreach for her. These are actual real humans (not AI characters or impersonators we've seen deployed on social media).
Nah....that's reserved for the Ted Cruz`s of the world who let the real boss call your wife ugly and then he goes and kisses his ass.......thats world class cuck at its finest
For AZ this goes back to Trump and Kari Lake going after John MCCain and those who supported him. I’m going to be curious to see if we see a similar movement in GA with Trump going after Kemp and other prominent Republicans. Kemp though is still saying he’s going to vote for Trump even though Trump went after him and his family at his Atlanta rally.
Opinion | To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris - The New York Times (nytimes.com) David French Aug. 11, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would support the state’s heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida’s abortion laws. I supported the Dobbs decision and I support well-drafted abortion restrictions at the state and federal levels. I was a pro-life lawyer who worked for pro-life legal organizations. While I want prospective parents to be able to use I.V.F. to build their families, I do not believe that unused embryos should simply be discarded — thrown away as no longer useful. But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism. ... It is fascinating to me that there are voices online who still claim that a person can’t be Christian and vote for Democrats, when the Trump campaign watered down the Republican platform on abortion to such an extent that it’s functionally pro-choice. Earlier generations of the pro-life movement would not have tolerated such a retreat. They would have made it clear that there were some principles Republicans simply can’t abandon without becoming a fundamentally different party. It becomes even stranger to claim that Christians can’t vote for Democrats when the prime-time lineup at the Republican convention featured an OnlyFans star, a man who publicly slapped his wife, a man who pleaded no contest to an assault charge, and another man who had sex with his friend’s wife while the friend watched — and that’s not even including any reference to Trump himself. Even if you want to focus on abortion as the single issue that decides your vote, the picture for abortion opponents is grim. Trump should get credit for nominating justices who helped overturn Roe (though the real credit for the decision goes to the justices themselves, including the George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito, who actually wrote the majority opinion). But when we’re dealing with a complex social phenomenon, political and legal issues are rarely simple. For the first time in decades, abortion rates and ratios increased under Trump. In addition, the best available evidence indicates that abortion rates are up since the Dobbs decision. ... I’m often asked by Trump voters if I’m “still conservative,” and I respond that I can’t vote for Trump precisely because I am conservative. I loathe sex abuse, p*rnography and adultery. Trump has brought those vices into the mainstream of the Republican Party. I want to cultivate a culture that values human life from conception through natural death. Yet America became more brutal and violent during Trump’s term. I want to defend liberal democracy from authoritarian aggression, yet Trump would abandon our allies and risk our most precious alliances. The only real hope for restoring a conservatism that values integrity, demonstrates real compassion and defends our foundational constitutional principles isn’t to try to make the best of Trump, a man who values only himself. If he wins again, it will validate his cruelty and his ideological transformation of the Republican Party. If Harris wins, the West will still stand against Vladimir Putin, and conservative Americans will have a chance to build something decent from the ruins of a party that was once a force for genuine good in American life.
'Republicans for Harris' Online Rally Attended by Over 70,000 People - Newsweek A"Republicans for Harris" online rally was attended virtually by 73,000 people on Tuesday night, according to organizers. "It is okay to be a Republican and vote for Kamala Harris. This movement is strong and growing," the group wrote on X, formerly Twitter. The vice president's campaign launched the group in August as part of an effort to win over GOP voters put off by former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. The hour-long Zoom rally saw several former elected Republican officials and party leaders make the case for supporting the Democratic ticket in November, including former congressmen Adam Kinzinger, Joe Walsh and Denver Riggleman. Olivia Troye, a former Trump administration official who hosted the rally, said: "Working in the White House was a realization of a lifelong dream, and I loved my job and the chance to serve my country in that way. "So leaving the Trump White House was one of the most difficult decisions of my life, but it became a necessary one when I could no longer in good faith serve an administration that I knew was actively failing the American people. As a first hand witness to the chaos of the Trump presidency behind closed doors, I can say this: we cannot go back." ...
Former Minnesota GOP operative joins growing list of ‘Republicans for Harris’ | MPR News A man who was once a fierce Republican operative is now calling on his fellow Republicans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, explained his position in an opinion piece in the Star Tribune this week. “It’s about standing up for the principles the party once represented,” Brodkorb told MPR News host Tom Crann in an interview about his stance. “The Republican party was about freedom, and they were about hope, and they were about optimism. I remember when I first got involved in the party process, Republicans were big believers in the Constitution.” “My advocacy in support of the Constitution is best reflected in supporting Harris and Walz than it is supporting Donald Trump and JD Vance,” he continued, pointing to comments former President Donald Trump made in 2022 questioning parts of the Constitution that prevented him from further contesting the outcome of the 2020 election. Brodkorb joins a growing list Republicans who say they’ll vote for Harris. On Tuesday, more than 70,000 people joined a “Republicans for Harris” online rally, according to organizers who spoke with NPR. Like Brodkorb, many of those in attendance spoke of themselves as stewards of a pre-Trump Republican agenda and of democracy. In a statement to NPR responding to the rally, the Trump campaign said the former president is “building the largest, most diverse political movement in history because his winning message of putting America first again resonates with Americans of all backgrounds. Kamala Harris is weak, failed and dangerously liberal and a vote for her is a vote for higher taxes, inflation, open borders, and war.” Brodkorb and others say they disagree with Harris’ policies, but that’s a pill they’re willing to swallow for the greater good.
My time for choosing: I’m a Republican and I’m endorsing Harris and Walz (startribune.com) Some might call me a traitor or a RINO. But I urge my fellow Republicans to also support them. By Michael Brodkorb Sixty years ago, near the end of the 1964 presidential election, Ronald Reagan gave a speech supporting Republican candidate Barry Goldwater that launched Reagan’s political career and paved the way to him becoming the 40th president of the United States 16 years later. In his famous “A Time for Choosing” speech, Reagan noted that he had spent most of his life as a Democrat. But he had recently “seen fit to follow another course,” as he believed “the issues confronting us cross party lines.” “You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right,” he said. ”Well, I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down — [up] man’s old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.” I find great comfort in Reagan’s words, which are strikingly relevant today. In this election, there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down.
'Republicans for Harris' Online Rally Attended by Over 70,000 People Riggleman, once a part of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and later an adviser to the committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, listed several reasons why he would not be supporting Trump. "Number one, I don't want to vote for a felon. I think that's sort of ridiculous with 34 felony counts," he said, referring to Trump's conviction in a New York hush money case. "Number two, I don't want to actually vote for a sexual assailant or a rapist," he added, a reference to Trump being found liable by a Manhattan jury of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. "I also don't want to vote for anybody who supported the January 6 insurrection. That's pretty bad. I also don't want to vote for anybody who supports dictators like Vladimir Putin, I don't want to vote for anybody who's a conspiracy theorist. I don't want to vote for anybody who can't tell the truth and who's an inveterate liar. https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-kamala-harris-rally-attendance-kinzinger-troy
I could definitely see this being a Trumping tactic -trying to lure the Dems into a false sense of security by inflating or helping to misrepresent these numbers. I do have a feeling, though, that the Harris campaign is proceeding forward as if these numbers aren't real, though.
47% of the voters appear to have no problem with voting for a racist, misogynist, felon, rapist and insurrectionist. This goes way way way beyond just holding your nose and voting the lesser of two evils.
Conservative Republican endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/poli...-calls-trump-a-threat-to-democracy/index.html Retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the bench by President George H.W. Bush, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, whose candidacy he describes as an existential threat to American democracy. It will be the first time Luttig, a veteran of two Republican administrations, has voted for a Democrat. “In the presidential election of 2024 there is only one political party and one candidate for the presidency that can claim the mantle of defender and protector of America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law,” Luttig wrote in a statement obtained exclusively by CNN. “As a result, I will unhesitatingly vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.” “In voting for Vice President Harris, I assume that her public policy views are vastly different from my own,” Luttig writes, “but I am indifferent in this election as to her policy views on any issues other than America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law, as I believe all Americans should be.” “In my faith, we believe that we will one day answer for our wrongs. I have always tried to live my life in anticipation of that day. Imperfectly, to be sure. But I have tried,” an emotional Luttig said. “My endorsement of the Vice President was the right thing to do. It would have been wrong for me to stay silent, and I believe I would have one day had to answer for that silence. “It’s really that simple.”
