Posted on 02/10/2021 7:06:48 PM PST by RandFan
(Reuters) - 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, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.
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, the people involved say.
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.
The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say.
Evan McMullin, who was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he co-hosted the Zoom call with former officials concerned about Trump’s grip on Republicans and the nativist turn the party has taken.
Three other people confirmed to Reuters the call and the discussions for a potential splinter party, but asked not to be identified.
Among the call participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump; former Republican congressman Charlie Dent; Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump; and Miles Taylor, another former Trump homeland security official.
Asked about the discussions for a third party, Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, said: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden.”
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Evan McMullin is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,..Romnney’s likly got his hand deep into this.
Mittens and McMuffin answer to a higher force - and it is not God.
3rd party is a a sure win for the rats.
They’re all Bush boys and Trump rejects.
These people couldn’t even build a treehouse and form a club in it.
It disgusts me that people like liz cheney exist. She, and her father before her, enrich themselves through governmental defense contracts... without the slightest bit of give a crap of blood that is spilled. She/they are scum! Do you really think she gives a rats patoot about any person in our military, police. All she cares about is the money the scumbags in the military industrial complex are paying her. She has never bled and never will. All she does is “profit”
These anti-Trumpers appear to be a vestige of the Lincoln Project. This is another money grab operation to exploit wealthy stooges.
That is EXACTLY what they have planned.
Hey you! Don’t you leave out the trans crowd! Don’t you know that you are being “insensitive”?
THAT is what artillery is for.
Is it just me? Or did bill kristol always strike you with the gay/trans thing?
Maybe they're doing this out of boredom? Because all the cruise lines are still shut down, yet this is the time of year they schedule cruises where people with more $$ than sense book rooms to go visit Caribbean islands and take selfies with pompous windbags who convince the tourists that they are The Greatest Intellects in Conservatism.
“The Micro Party”
Imagine that, having to drop your pants to prove you are a “member” of this new party.
The seventy four million of us - - the people who voted for Trump - - will struggle to contain our grief at the loss of these "dozens' of people. /s
Great news!! We don’t need to form a third party, ANTI TRUMP MORONS are doing it!!
LOL - Bingo.
McMullin — pictured with McCain helping to establish ISIS.
CIA guy, bf of Pierre Delecto, aka Mitt Romney.
“Principled conservative” — Righty-oh!!!
It’s cute how they think their opinion matters to us!
Looks like the GOP Gay Mafia (Lincoln Project) is changing stripes after being (accidentally) outed by their leader.
Like it or not, they do have money, lots of it (not difficult if you don’t have a wife or kids). But we have MUCH MORE money, and if we’re ready to give some of it to Trump’s new party, they’ll be unstoppable.
The only reason that the GOP Gay Mafia even exists is because of their access to money - that’s their draw to even many conservative Republicans (like Cruz). We need to show we can not only match that, but exceed it.
Would this actually benefit the GOPe?
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