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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Call it the Democrat party, or more to the point, the Communist party.
There already is one, it’s the Republican party.
Excellent!!! This is to be encouraged. Hey guys, try to convince as many RINOs as you can to join you.
Anyone have their kitty filters operating?
I would love if they did this, they’d pull the 5% of well-poisoners out of the GOP and identify them all clearly to boot. It would herald a recruitment boom to be finally rid of them!
That’s a longer and more detailed than the very short comment I have for them.
:)
Ah, the birth of the Loser Party.
Ummm, bye bitches!
Dozens, you say. Enough to fill the auditorium in a rural Kansas high school.
They are living in bizarro world. They are still trying to align on a stage with 16 candidates next to Bush and fight off Trump - and they still aren’t getting THEY ARE THE ENEMY.
..... I Wonder how many mighty “Third Party” Republican Splinter Groups are going to swoop in to save the day next election .....
You want a war?
War? What war? Let them go.
they are trying to stop the formation of the Patriot Party by getting out in front of it
obviously
shouldn’t stop the formation of the Patriot Party.
80m+ would voters are looking for an American First party.
McMullin Is CIA. Rat par excellence.
More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway groupSo sorry I missed it.
The Republican party is already the big loser in this war against Trump and now they want to double down? I for one can’t wait to join Trump’s party.
I know, they can have a cruise! And fundraise. And go, “Harumph!’ and, “Unseemly!”
Rooters is eating mushrooms again.
>>former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush
The Reagan administrtation had influence from the Rockefeller-Bush wing of the party. So in reality “Bush - Bush”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv6w_ys5sJo
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