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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.
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.
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.”
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