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Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain endorse Biden for president
nbcnews.com ^ | August 27, 2020 | Rebecca Shabad and Mike Memoli

Posted on 08/27/2020 9:00:52 PM PDT by lowbridge

Several hundred former aides to President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain announced Thursday that they are endorsing Joe Biden for president.

The statements of support for the Democratic nominee come as President Donald Trump prepares to accept his party's nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention.

A political action committee, 43 Alumni for Biden, that launched last month posted a list of nearly 300 members of the Bush administration or campaigns who are publicly backing Biden. The names range from members of the Cabinet, including former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, to ambassadors, to White House and advance staffers.

Meanwhile, more than 100 former staff of McCain's congressional offices and campaigns also endorsed Biden for president.

“Given the incumbent president’s lack of competent leadership, his efforts to aggravate rather than bridge divisions among Americans, and his failure to uphold American values, we believe the election of former Vice President Biden is clearly in the national interest,” they said in a letter.

Some of McCain’s former aides who signed the letter include Mark Salter, the senator's onetime chief of staff; Christian Ferry, who was deputy manager for McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign; Joe Donoghue, who was McCain's legislative director; and Mike Murphy, a GOP political consultant who was a strategist on McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bush; georgebush; johnmccain; mccain; rino; rinos; stayoutdabushes; trump
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To: lowbridge

It is normally VERY difficult for a second term nominee to continue to position himself as being the anti-Establishment candidate.

Trump gets his opponents to do it for him.


61 posted on 08/27/2020 9:33:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Shortstop7

Join the crowd. I have always despised the old man and his cretinic son; but for Reagan, they would have spent their lives scarfing oil contracts in Midland but once they got power they did everything they could to undercut his policies. GW should spend the rest of his life walking Iraq in search of the nonexistent WMDs over which he started a crazy war. He’d be more likely to find the Holy Grail.


62 posted on 08/27/2020 9:33:58 PM PDT by laconic
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To: silverleaf

It’s good that the swamp things come out from under the sludge so we can see who they are. Come out come out wherever you are. It’s no surprise that they support Biden. The republican party has been poisoned for a long time.


63 posted on 08/27/2020 9:34:05 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: lowbridge
Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain endorse Biden for president

That's sort of like 100s of 7th Round Draft Picks oppose rookie QB who wins the Super Bowl with no offensive line, and not much of a defense.
64 posted on 08/27/2020 9:35:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Williams

“You have to be a pure scumbag to inflict Biden and the communists on this country.”

Absolutely.


65 posted on 08/27/2020 9:36:17 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: rintintin
I was a huge fan for his first term, when he was brash and bold.
His war with Iraq...fumbled by bad political strategy of how to deal with the senior members of Saddam's military and govt. locking them out of the “ new Iraq” was a historically stupid blunder. Then after 2004/5 Bush increasingly folded like a cheap suit and let Pelosi ride him like a well-broke pony, humiliating and insulting him with no response. Could never respect that.

Now the Trump has revealed the character of the Bushes....never again,

66 posted on 08/27/2020 9:38:26 PM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: lowbridge

We always knew the Republican Party was full of cowards and traitors.

Mighty polite of them to out themselves openly for all to see.


67 posted on 08/27/2020 9:38:57 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: silverleaf

The list should be called “RINOs on Parade,” The Democrats will spit them out after the election.


68 posted on 08/27/2020 9:39:06 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: silverleaf

[Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain endorse Biden for president]

Well, color me SHOCKED!!!

[This makes us like Trump even more]

Yep.

President Trump is the guy who isn’t selling America out at every turn. And he’s not linked to career politicians or D.C. as a career. No wonder they hate this guy.


69 posted on 08/27/2020 9:40:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: silverleaf

[Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain endorse Biden for president]

Well, color me SHOCKED!!!

[This makes us like Trump even more]

Yep.

President Trump is the guy who isn’t selling America out at every turn. And he’s not linked to career politicians or D.C. as a career. No wonder they hate this guy.


70 posted on 08/27/2020 9:40:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; null and void
[Bush League Republicans still want their New World Order and the only way to get it is flooding the country with foreigners to outvote the citizens.]

Careful, talk like that could land ya on the nut-job conspiracy ping list with a few of us!!!


71 posted on 08/27/2020 9:41:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lowbridge

The deep state outing itself.


72 posted on 08/27/2020 9:41:48 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: lowbridge

We are known by the company we keep.


73 posted on 08/27/2020 9:42:35 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: dfwgator

They landed outside D.C.?


74 posted on 08/27/2020 9:42:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lowbridge

The deep state has DEEP POCKETS.


75 posted on 08/27/2020 9:44:03 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: silverleaf
This makes us like Trump even more

Precisely!

Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain turncoats endorse Biden for president

Regards,

76 posted on 08/27/2020 9:45:37 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: lowbridge

The Bush Crime Family are nothin g more than establishment grifters. What a bunch of East Coast inbred pukes.


77 posted on 08/27/2020 9:46:19 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
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To: SaveFerris

78 posted on 08/27/2020 9:46:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Make a list.
We will remember.


79 posted on 08/27/2020 9:46:28 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: lowbridge

Aha, the rats are exposing themselves as such, at last. Better they ally themselves with human dirt, i.e. the dummocraps, than insinuate themselves for future sabotage with the RNC.


80 posted on 08/27/2020 9:51:23 PM PDT by EinNYC
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