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Other Republicans, like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Lord, publicly question ‘A Call for American Renewal’
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks during a confirmation hearing Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Evan McMullin, Miles Taylor and 150 other Republicans or former Republicans signed a “statement of principles” to guide a new political movement last week and threatened to leave the GOP.
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Last week, former Republican policy strategist and 2016 independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin signed a letter, along with over 150 others, outlining principles for a new political movement. While their written intent was to “catalyze an American renewal” built on “founding American principles,” they also entertained the idea of creating a new party, should the Republican Party fail to reform.
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Former President
Donald Trump wrote a lengthy tirade on his new website, From the Desk of Donald J. Trump, attacking a new anti-Trump group of GOP members that threatened to start a new party calling them “RINO Losers.”
Yesterday, Reuters reported over 100 former GOP officials suggested they would start a new party if the GOP doesn’t reject Trump. Their statement said, “Either reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative.”
One of the organizers of the group,
New York Times that said he was part of the resistance inside Trump’s administration. He received the lion’s share of Trump’s ire.