Ex-Trump White House officials, dozens of Republicans endorse Harris

Vice
President

Kamala
Harris‘
campaign
on
Sunday
flaunted
over
two
dozen
presidential
endorsements
from

Republican
party
members,
including
some
who
served
in
former
President

Donald
Trump‘s
administration.

Nearly
30
GOP
members
were
cited
as
part
of
the
new “Republicans
for
Harris” initiative
launched
Sunday.
These
include
Stephanie
Grisham,
former
White
House
press
secretary
under
Trump,
and
national
security
official
Olivia
Troye
—
who
worked
as
Vice
President
Mike
Pence’s
national
security
advisor.
Chuck
Hagel
and
Ray
LaHood,
Republican
cabinet
members
under
President
Barack
Obama,
were
also
listed.

By
publicly
defecting
on
the
Republican
presidential
nominee,
these
officials
leave
a
target
on
their
back
for
attacks
from
Trump.

“We
have
to
purge
the
Party
of
people
that
go
against
our
Candidates,
and
make
it
harder
for
a
popular
Republican
President
to
beat
the
Radical
Left
Lunatics.
Geoff
Duncan
is
a
loser
who
is
disintegrating
on
his
own.”
Trump
posted
on

Truth
Social
on
Saturday,
referring
to
the
former
lieutenant
governor
of
Georgia
who
has
endorsed
Harris.

The
Harris
campaign’s
new
initiative
targeting
Republican
voters
comes
two
weeks
since
President

Joe
Biden
dropped
out
of
the
presidential
race
and
endorsed
Harris.
Since
then,
the
vice
president
has
enjoyed
a
groundswell
of
early
support
in
the
form
of
record
donations,
volunteer
sign-ups
and
a
surge
in
the
polls
—
closing
the
voter
gap
against
Trump.

Despite
Harris’
initial
momentum,
she
and
Trump
are
still
in
tight
race
that
could
be
decided
by
just
a
slim
margin
of
voters
in
November.
That
statistical
dead-heat
is
why
the
Harris
campaign
is
targeting
undecided
Republicans
within
who
may
be
persuadable
against
their
party’s
nominee.

“Donald
Trump’s
MAGA
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
Austin
Weatherford,
the
Harris
campaign’s
national
director
of
Republican
outreach,
in
a
memo.

“Vice
President
Harris
and
our
campaign
are
working
overtime
to
earn
the
support
of
my
fellow
Republicans
who
care
about
defending
democracy
and
restoring
decency,”
he
added.

The
Trump
campaign
did
not
immediately
respond
to
a
request
for
comment.