According to Reuters:
Over 100 former Republican officials will sign a letter on Thursday declaring that if the Republican Party does not break with former President Donald Trump and change course, they will back the creation of a third party.
The letter, headlined: “A Call For American Renewal,” is an exploratory move toward forming a breakaway party, two of its organizers said. The group is dismayed by what it says is a modern Republican Party driven by its allegiance to Trump, who continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.
“The Republican Party is broken. It’s time for a resistance of the ‘rationals’ against the ‘radicals, ” said Miles Taylor, one of the organizers. Taylor, while serving in the Trump White House, wrote an anonymous opinion piece in the New York Times in 2018 headlined: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”
Liz Cheney vowed to do whatever it takes to stop Donald Trump from returning to political power and didn t rule out her own presidential bid in the process.
Republicans joined in a letter: A Call For American Renewal
Signatures include former governors, ambassadors, and Republican Party chairmen
Demands party returns to a rational party, supports free minds, markets, people
Release comes a day after Republicans ousted Liz Cheney from leadership
They call for the nation to reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals
The signers attack disenfranchisement of voters and reject populism
Former President Trump attacked them as losers and RINOs
Comes as Cheney won t rule out run for president to stop unfit Trump
Reuters
Published: 12 May 2021 10:52 AM BdST
Updated: 12 May 2021 10:52 AM BdST Third party candidate Evan McMullin, an independent, talks to the press as he campaigns in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 12, 2016. REUTERS
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The letter, headlined: A Call For American Renewal, is an exploratory move toward forming a breakaway party, two of its organisers said. The group is dismayed by what it says is a modern Republican Party driven by its allegiance to Trump, who continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.