I only recognize three names there Whitman, Ridge, and Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Dent.
Weird, huh?
They may face an uphill battle in getting any current Republican officeholders to sign on – including Cheney herself, who in February rejected the idea of a third party, saying it would empower Democrats.
Yes, the people who have been voting Democrat for a decade are really bothered by the idea of empowering the Democrat Party.
A spokesman for Trump, Jason Miller, said: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden.”
Evan McMullin, a former chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and an independent presidential candidate in 2016, said if the Republican Party does not reject lies and extremism, part of it “will have no choice but to part ways with it and build something new. We’re excited about that prospect.”
Former Gov. Whitman among 150 Republicans ready to ditch GOP for new political party over the ‘big lie’
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman at home in Tewksbury in 2019. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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Former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman’s family farm in Hunterdon County, known as Pontefract, has been an epicenter of Republican politics for generations.
It’s where Whitman’s father lived as he headed the New Jersey Republican State Committee and became one its biggest benefactors. It’s where her mother served stints as president of the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women and vice chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
Group of former GOP officials demand reforms, threaten 3rd party
If the U.S. no longer has a center-right party, perhaps some folks ought to create one? A group of disaffected Republicans is threatening to do so.
Miles Taylor, center, departs the Republican Caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill, on March 5, 2019.Alex Brandon / AP file
May 13, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
By most measures, the United States is the only major Western democracy without a center-right political party. As we ve discussed, by international standards, American voters have a choice between a center-left Democratic Party and a Republican Party that s further to the right than almost any competitive party in the Western world.
A group of more than 100 influential Republicans plans to release a call for reforms within the GOP alongside a threat to form a new party if change isn't.