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Some GOP officials are urging Republican voters to back Democrats in 2022 to save the party from 'pro-Trump extremists'
Yahoo.com ^ | 10/11/21 | Cheryl Teh

Posted on 10/12/2021 3:58:23 AM PDT by cotton1706

Two GOP officials urged voters to make sure "rational Republicans" don't lose the "GOP civil war."

The op-ed was written by Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey.

They highlighted the need to elect a "strong contingent of moderate Democrats" in 2022.

Two GOP officials have urged Republican voters to vote Democrat in the 2022 midterm elections, suggesting that this might be a way for the GOP to "battle pro-Trump extremists."

Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey, penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday. Taylor was the Trump administration official who, under the pen name "Anonymous", wrote a 2018 op-ed in The Times describing a "resistance" of Trump administration officials working to tamper the former president's "worst inclinations."

Together, Taylor and Whitman asked that the GOP's base consider supporting Democrats so that "conservative pragmatists" could retake control of the party.

"Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats," Taylor and Whitman wrote.

"It's a strategy that has worked," they wrote. "Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with seven percent who voted for him in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states."

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They are scared to death that REAL conservatives will be swept into positions of power.
1 posted on 10/12/2021 3:58:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Christine Todd Whitman again?! She’s a Republican? LOL!


2 posted on 10/12/2021 3:59:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: cotton1706

The GOP is a Democrat front which now openly asks Republicans to vote for Democrats over Republicans.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 4:00:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: cotton1706
Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey, penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday.

Yes, an op-ed in the NYT is a sure way to reach Republican voters!

4 posted on 10/12/2021 4:00:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: cotton1706

Hey, Whitman.... know any moderate Democrats? And how exactly does electing Democrats help moderate Republicans?


5 posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:00 AM PDT by dangus
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To: cotton1706

More importantly, I want as many Trump supporters as possible to volunteer for election worker positions throughout the country. The good news is that we will have an easier time “stopping the steal” in the toss-up congressional districts, because they rarely include inner-city precincts, where most of the corruption is, anyway.


6 posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:01 AM PDT by FreedomVsControl
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To: cotton1706

These “officials” should be booted from the GOP. Make them join the Democrat Party that they love so much.


7 posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:28 AM PDT by Russ (I )
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To: cotton1706

These “officials” should be booted from the GOP. Make them join the Democrat Party that they love so much.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:29 AM PDT by Russ (I )
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To: cotton1706

It is way past time to put the GOPeahens out into the barnyard and get a real party for Patriots going, and make sure all of our Candidates are constitutionalists, period.


9 posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:35 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: Rummyfan
She’s a Republican? LOL!

A RINOs RINO, if there ever was one. Screw them.

10 posted on 10/12/2021 4:03:23 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: cotton1706
"Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats," Taylor and Whitman wrote.

Did either of these two nitwits read what they supposedly wrote?

If you are pro-America First, are for real borders, lower taxes and more jobs, you are an extremist {and by definition, pro-Trump}.

Does anyone believe a single mind would be changed by this tripe?

11 posted on 10/12/2021 4:05:51 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: cotton1706

“Hi, I’m a Republican but will vote for demoncraps because communism is somehow better than lower taxes and a secure border.” ~ Christie “I’m GOP. Really I am” Whitman.


12 posted on 10/12/2021 4:07:29 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: cotton1706

How is Christine Todd Whitman a GOP official? She’s a washed up former RINO has been Governor who also lied to all the Ground Zero workers as head of the EPA.


13 posted on 10/12/2021 4:08:30 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America!)
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To: cotton1706

Ever since Goldwater. I tell my wife all the time, “They ain’t gonna let you live the way you want and know is right.”


14 posted on 10/12/2021 4:08:38 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: cotton1706
"They highlighted the need to elect a "strong contingent of moderate Democrats" in 2022."

Christine Todd Whitman and Miles Taylor..

" A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly." "But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men." "He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist." "A murderer is less to fear.." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

15 posted on 10/12/2021 4:10:38 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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Bush appointee, Christine Todd Whitman killed hundreds of brave First Responders when she claimed that the air quality at the 9/11 ‘pit’ was safe.


16 posted on 10/12/2021 4:13:41 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Sirius Lee

Dont worry next they will be supporting a libertarian candidate with a good chance of helping the rat win
Playbook as old as dirt


17 posted on 10/12/2021 4:14:49 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: cotton1706

Fortunately, nobody pays attention to that irrelevant woman.


18 posted on 10/12/2021 4:15:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: cotton1706

Whistles was NEVER a true Republican!


19 posted on 10/12/2021 4:16:38 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: cotton1706

The evil ones keep outing themselves.
7 % of Republicans did not flip; they were flipped by voter fraud.


20 posted on 10/12/2021 4:17:42 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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