Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party

Reuters ^ | Feb 10 | Reuters

[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.”

[Luke21]

Egg McMuffin of the CIA is back.

[InterceptPoint]

I really don’t think this is what The Third Party Freepers have in mind. Not to worry - it will go nowhere. But if a miracle should happen and it somehow caught on it would be easy to predict the outcome of future elections, they would be more favorable to Democrat candidates.

We would be better off working to get Green Party Candidates on the ballots. Now that is an idea that would be seriously resisted by Guess Who?

Democrats. They are very misguided but they understand politics and power.

[crosdaddy]

Now with more Bacon?

[Ancesthntr]

These people are the enemies of the Republic.

[indthkr]

The New Whig Party Rises!

[Jewbacca]

Fantastic. Go meet at bush’s house.

[Sarah Barracuda]

good riddance they are commies anyway believe in the same garbage as the left open borders etc

[fuzzylogic]

Wonderful...let them expose themselves and self-purge. We WANT to know whom you are.

[rhinohunter]

Evan McMullin

What? Was Jonah Goldberg not available?

[matt04]

Idiots don;t realized 74 million, plus what ever many have been lost or incorrectly counted people voted FOR Trump because of his American People First polices.

[MAGAthon]

By Tim Reid; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Peter Cooney

“Another option under discussion is to form a “faction” that would operate either inside the current Republican Party or outside it.

“Names under consideration for a new party include the Integrity Party and the ***Center Right Party. If it is decided instead to form a faction, one name under discussion is the Center Right Republicans.”

Lachlan Murdoch Defends Fox News ***’Center-Right’ Focus
Bloomberg - 1 day ago

[Magnatron]

Dozens? Good luck with 123rd party status, guys, right after the Racoon Party...

[PeterPrinciple]

120 of them

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news worthy.....................

[cba123]

President Trump, please start a third party yourself.

Dump the GOP.

Just my suggestion.

[aumrl]

Good. Saves the Deplorables alot of trouble. Let them leave.

We keep the party infrastructure....
they start from scratch

[Celtic Conservative]

In the words of my grandpa, “don’t let the screen door hit ‘ya where the good Lord split ‘ya!”

CC

[Bratch]

Adam Kinzinger Threatens to Target Matt Gaetz With DeceptiCon Superpac, Gaetz Says “F’ing Bring It”

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Sundance

If you have read CTH you know Adam Kinzinger is a House member of the DeceptiCon caucus. A McCain minded, war-mongering, lover of all things deep state.  He rides the uniparty like a bird of prey, and is one of the more visible CNN republicans because he loves to crap on anyone who would fight back against his insufferable duplicity.

Kinzinger sees himself as better than all those who prefer to focus on America First priorities. He is an elitist-minded politician who views the MAGA community of Trump supporters with utmost contempt.

We need a “Big Ugly” battle against these creatures who reside comfortably in the cocktail party circuit purchased by Wall Street.

(Via The Hill) Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) plans to target lawmakers including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) with his new political action committee, which aims to aid GOP candidates that don’t embrace Trumpism.

The Illinois lawmaker — who has been a vocal Trump critic and was one of the 10 GOP House members to in favor of impeaching the former president for inciting a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — told The Washington Post he has a “huge list” of members he would like to see challenged for perpetuating conspiracy theories and the unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

[…]  Kinzinger, who announced the launch of the Country First PAC late last month, said he would like to help boost politicians beyond Congress, adding he doesn’t plan to have a litmus test on social issues for candidates he’ll support.

“I don’t want to engage in races and lose, because it’s a bad narrative, too. But I want to give support to people on local levels, even people running for mayor, state reps etc. and just simply say this: I don’t care what you believe, as long as you believe it: you can be pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-gun, right?” he continued.  (read more)

Knowing that President Trump holds 85% support from the republican base; and knowing that President Trump received more votes than any other president in history; the response from Matt Gaetz is exactly correct:  “[*] bring it.”

*expletive deleted

Link to Tweet pic

We need this battle….

We need this purge….

We need to destroy the DeceptiCon wing of the UniParty in DC.

Whenever CNN, or for that matter any media, want a republican voice to argue against Donald Trump, in the “current days’ outrage du jour”, they call upon Kinzinger first and foremost. He seemingly loves the spotlight as much as he enjoys promoting himself on social media. In essence, he’s a proud #NeverTrumper.

During a trip to Turkey in 2014 to discuss arming Syrian rebel groups, under the auspices of fighting ISIS, you see Representative Adam Kinzinger appear.  Oh yeah, and who’s that other fellow circled in the meeting?  ….why that’s our anti-Trump candidate Evan McMullin. Huh, fancy that.

Spotting Evan McMullin conspicuously standing there in the picture made us want to go back to the CNN file footage from the time and see if he was actually visible in the report they filed from Turkey.  Yup, he’s there alright.

Watch and spot him in the background during quite a bit of the footage:

Rep. Kinzinger Discusses Deal Brokered with Syrian Rebels on CNN

Long before anyone heard about Evan McMullin running for President, there he is paling around with #NeverTrump Adam Kinzinger in Turkey chatting with the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates (guise SETF) who are essentially the political arm of ISIS under a differing name.

The declared purpose of the meeting was to discuss who and how to arm the entities within Syria.  However, just like in 2012/2013 these same Brotherhood voices in 2014 are simply trying to present themselves as one thing, only to gain the goal of another.  That’s ultimately the story behind the arms deals within The Benghazi Brief.  That’s the lesson that should have been learned if the truth contained within the brief were ever to have larger public interest.

Additionally, all that said – it’s connections like these that make other things, like the opposition to Donald Trump, make much more sense.

[T.B. Yoits]

Instead of just voting for someone to get them into office, can we vote people into a political party?

[Rembrandt]

I also want to be avant garde. I’m going to start an anti-Dewey party!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Let the establishment Stalinazi Derper scum depart the GOP. They can compete with the Demonrats for the same voter. We take back the GOP for the patriots.