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Prominent Republicans That Have Endorsed Biden For POTUS (1 Viewer)

2Squirrels1Nut

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1. John Kasich

2. Chuck Hagel

3. Ray LaHood

4. Colin Powell

5. Christine Whitman

6. Anthony Scaramucci,

7. Miles Taylor

8. Carly Fiorina

9. Meg Whitman

10. David Durenberger

11. Gordon J. Humphrey

12. John Warner

13. Jeff Flake

14. Susan Molinari

15. Charles Djou

16. Joe Walsh

17. Cindy McCain

18. Meghan McCain

19. Charlie Dent

20. Elizabeth Neumann

21. Steve Bartlett

22. Bill Clinger

23. Tom Coleman

24. Mickey Edwards

25. Wayne Gilchrest

26. Jim Greenwood

27. Bob Inglis

28. Jim Kolbe

29. Steve Kuykendall

30. Jim Leach

31. Connie Morella

32. Mike Parker

33. Jack Quinn

34. Claudine Schneider

35. Chris Shays

36. Peter Smith

37. Alan Steelman

38. Bill Whitehurst

39. **** Zimmer

40. Bill Cohen

41. George W Bush (Won't back Trump)

42. Jeb Bush (Won't back Trump)

43. Jim Mattis

44. John Kelly

45. Tom Bossert

46. Omarosa Manigault

47. Gary Cohn

48. Richard Spencer

49. Rex Tillerson

50. John Bolton

51. Mitt Romney (Won't back Trump)

52. Francis Rooney (Won't back Trump)

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~ A group of 73 former U.S. national security officials in the Republican administrations, including former heads of the CIA and FBI and Trump administration officials, endorsed Biden, asserting that Trump’s “corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president.”

~ Over 100 McCain staffers

~Dozens Of Romney 2012 Campaign Officials Announce Support For Biden

~43 George W. Bush campaign and administration staffers

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These people have held or hold some of the highest position in our government and know Trump better than anyone here at FBG's.  I hope that those of you planning on voting Trump will at least consider this and maybe change your mind.

 
joffer said:
that’s a reeeaaaally deep state.
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That’s the bizarre part. For many this will just reinforce their support for Trump. I hope there are other life king Republicans who will recognize this for the monumental sign that it is.

 
2Squirrels1Nut said:
1. John Kasich

2. Chuck Hagel

3. Ray LaHood

4. Colin Powell

5. Christine Whitman

6. Anthony Scaramucci,

7. Miles Taylor

8. Carly Fiorina

9. Meg Whitman

10. David Durenberger

11. Gordon J. Humphrey

12. John Warner

13. Jeff Flake

14. Susan Molinari

15. Charles Djou

16. Joe Walsh

17. Cindy McCain

18. Meghan McCain

19. Charlie Dent

20. Elizabeth Neumann

21. Steve Bartlett

22. Bill Clinger

23. Tom Coleman

24. Mickey Edwards

25. Wayne Gilchrest

26. Jim Greenwood

27. Bob Inglis

28. Jim Kolbe

29. Steve Kuykendall

30. Jim Leach

31. Connie Morella

32. Mike Parker

33. Jack Quinn

34. Claudine Schneider

35. Chris Shays

36. Peter Smith

37. Alan Steelman

38. Bill Whitehurst

39. **** Zimmer

40. Bill Cohen

41. George W Bush (Won't back Trump)

42. Jeb Bush (Won't back Trump)

43. Jim Mattis

44. John Kelly

45. Tom Bossert

46. Omarosa Manigault

47. Gary Cohn

48. Richard Spencer

49. Rex Tillerson

50. John Bolton

51. Mitt Romney (Won't back Trump)

52. Francis Rooney (Won't back Trump)

Also

~ A group of 73 former U.S. national security officials in the Republican administrations, including former heads of the CIA and FBI and Trump administration officials, endorsed Biden, asserting that Trump’s “corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president.”

~ Over 100 McCain staffers

~Dozens Of Romney 2012 Campaign Officials Announce Support For Biden

~43 George W. Bush campaign and administration staffers

Link 1

Link 2

These people have held or hold some of the highest position in our government and know Trump better than anyone here at FBG's.  I hope that those of you planning on voting Trump will at least consider this and maybe change your mind.
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And vote for a democrat instead? Not a chance. Not with what I see out of Democrats this go ‘round.

 
@T J Like the life long republicans listed, many still in office, I respectfully ask that you ignore the party and concentrate on the character of the candidates. 

 
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2Squirrels1Nut said:
@T J Like the life long republicans listed, many still in office, I respectfully ask that you ignore the party and concentrate on the character of the candidates. 
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It’s not about character to me. It’s about what I think is the best way to go for the country. I’m sure you disagree but I think Trump’s policies have been very good for the country and I want to see them continue. I admittedly wish it weren’t him being the one to carry them out. 

 
Who cares. KAYLA MUELLER S parents never heard from Biden.   And they are voting for trump.

Biden is a wreck.

 
quick-hands said:
Who cares. KAYLA MUELLER S parents never heard from Biden.   And they are voting for trump.

Biden is a wreck.
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I don't understand this reference but, okay.   I voted GWB, twice, McCain and Romney. I think they are good people and their opinions, and of their families, matter to me.  I know there are a lot of people planning on voting Trump that voted the same way I did. I believe it is useful to consider that it is very unusual for them to not be supporting the incumbent R for POTUS. 

 
Joe Summer said:
To be fair, I think you should remove the "won't back Trump" people and put them into a different category.
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I’m certainly not gonna go person bye person as I don’t know half of them. LaHood voted for Obama. Bush won’t back Trump because he stated time and time again he is retired from politics and doesn’t publicly comment.  Also, when was the last time Colin Powell endorsed a Republican for president? Christine Whitman endorsed Hillary. The list is nothing more than a talking point with little substance.

 
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Cjw_55106 said:
Joe Summer said:
To be fair, I think you should remove the "won't back Trump" people and put them into a different category.
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I’m certainly not gonna go person bye person as I don’t know half of them. LaHood voted for Obama. Bush won’t back Trump because he stated time and time again he is retired from politics and doesn’t publicly comment.  Also, when was the last time Colin Powell endorsed a Republican for president? Christine Whitman endorsed Hillary. The list is nothing more than a talking point with little substance.
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The fact that detractors would try to dismiss it as a talking point....tends to prove that it's more than just a talking point. These Republicans are going to influence their friends and supporters, and some of them will actively campaign on Biden's behalf.

But the bigger impact has less to do with influencing voters, and more to do with money. They're cutting off several fundraising pipelines which Trump sorely needs right now. We've already seen the effect of this money vacuum, as the Trump campaign has resorted to pestering prior donors 10 times a week to please please please donate again.

And even if the movement fails to convince a significant number of Republicans to actually vote for Biden, I think the Biden campaign will call it a win if the end result is simply a lower Republican turnout.

If you can't make them feel enthusiastic about Biden, then just make them feel depressed about Trump.

 
Joe Summer said:
The fact that detractors would try to dismiss it as a talking point....tends to prove that it's more than just a talking point. These Republicans are going to influence their friends and supporters, and some of them will actively campaign on Biden's behalf.

But the bigger impact has less to do with influencing voters, and more to do with money. They're cutting off several fundraising pipelines which Trump sorely needs right now. We've already seen the effect of this money vacuum, as the Trump campaign has resorted to pestering prior donors 10 times a week to please please please donate again.

And even if the movement fails to convince a significant number of Republicans to actually vote for Biden, I think the Biden campaign will call it a win if the end result is simply a lower Republican turnout.

If you can't make them feel enthusiastic about Biden, then just make them feel depressed about Trump.
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My point is, it’s not uncommon for the people mentioned to endorse the other side. I am personally dismissing it because it doesn’t mean anything. They’ve done it before. I have no idea who Trumps campaign has asked for money, but to say he sorely needs it is kind of a joke. He’s raise nearly double the amount of money Biden has.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
My point is, it’s not uncommon for the people mentioned to endorse the other side.
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Perhaps that's because you cherry-picked 4 names out of 52?

edit: also, George W. Bush was retired in 2012 yet that didn't stop him from endorsing Romney.

 
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Joe Summer said:
Perhaps that's because you cherry-picked 4 names out of 52?

edit: also, George W. Bush was retired in 2012 yet that didn't stop him from endorsing Romney.
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Not to mention that a number of these folks were hand picked by Trump himself. 

 
supermike80 said:
I was unaware until this post that every republican always sided with the republican nominee.
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Despite the deflective nature of this post, there's actually a kernel of truth in there. The modern Republican party — since Reagan for sure, but probably with trace elements dating back to Eisenhower — has done an exceptionally good job of rallying around their candidate and showing unity.

As Reagan was famous for saying (he even called it The Eleventh Commandment), "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but what we're seeing right now is the biggest disavowal from a major political party since Barry Goldwater in 1964.

 
The real question is why are these politicians against Trump?  Is it because they are on the liberal bandwagon of blaming everything on Trump?  They find him reprehensible?  Or, because he's a political outsider that is a threat to career politicians, in general?

 
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Manster said:
The real question is why are these politicians against Trump?  Is it because they are on the liberal bandwagon of blaming everything on Trump?  They find him reprehensible?  Or, because he's a political outsider that is a threat to career politicians, in general?
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Most of these people have given explanations about why they are against Trump.  Mostly little stuff like he's destroying the country or he's a threat to democracy. 

 
Manster said:
The real question is why are these politicians against Trump?  Is it because they are on the liberal bandwagon of blaming everything on Trump?  They find him reprehensible?  Or, because he's a political outsider that is a threat to career politicians, in general?
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Because he's a threat to the country and democracy is the most common answer given. 

 
Manster said:
The real question is why are these politicians against Trump?  Is it because they are on the liberal bandwagon of blaming everything on Trump?  They find him reprehensible?  Or, because he's a political outsider that is a threat to career politicians, in general?
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Two reasons:  he's reprehensible, and he's lousy in a crisis.

 
In all honesty, 

Joe Summer said:
Despite the deflective nature of this post, there's actually a kernel of truth in there. The modern Republican party — since Reagan for sure, but probably with trace elements dating back to Eisenhower — has done an exceptionally good job of rallying around their candidate and showing unity.

As Reagan was famous for saying (he even called it The Eleventh Commandment), "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but what we're seeing right now is the biggest disavowal from a major political party since Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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Reagan is nothing more than a deep stater.  

 
Populists are going to Populist.  That's what Trump do.

That he might win this one is a testament to the unwavering belief in him by his followers.  What's the old Barnum/Lincoln expression?

The blessing for Centrists about Trumps agenda/narrative is that he probably could have crushed it this election if he threw the other side of the far political spectrum a bone or two.  I realize a lot of Bernie Bros. are going to vote for him....that seems more out of some weird spite or this notion that he'll be so bad....people will have no choice but to run to Super Socialist Sanders in 2024*...... but if Trump actually made a sincere effort to court those people with a token or two.....it would be over.

* Narrator - "They won't."

 
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Here's the thing: most of these people are vile cretins that no one should want anywhere near their party.  I mean John Bolton, really?  

Their ballyhooing about democracy doesn't mean anything.  Many of them are implicated in profoundly undemocratic disasters, like the Iraq War.  

I can't imagine being jazzed about John Bolton supporting someone that I liked.  

 
Looks like John Dean, of Watergate fame, is the latest to weigh in against Trump.  

https://news.yahoo.com/democracy-gone-critics-raise-alarm-110045375.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca

“I worked for the last authoritarian president, and he was dangerous enough,” said Dean, the Watergate cover-up co-conspirator who served as chief White House counsel to Richard Nixon and testified against him during Senate hearings. "Trump makes Nixon look like a choirboy.”

"If we get four more years of him," Dean said, "then our democracy will be gone.”
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Manster said:
The real question is why are these politicians against Trump?  Is it because they are on the liberal bandwagon of blaming everything on Trump?  They find him reprehensible?  Or, because he's a political outsider that is a threat to career politicians, in general?
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Because he isn't a good person, President, conservative?

Tale your pick.

 
Joe Summer said:
Despite the deflective nature of this post, there's actually a kernel of truth in there. The modern Republican party — since Reagan for sure, but probably with trace elements dating back to Eisenhower — has done an exceptionally good job of rallying around their candidate and showing unity.

As Reagan was famous for saying (he even called it The Eleventh Commandment), "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but what we're seeing right now is the biggest disavowal from a major political party since Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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Democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line.

 
Joe Summer said:
Despite the deflective nature of this post, there's actually a kernel of truth in there. The modern Republican party — since Reagan for sure, but probably with trace elements dating back to Eisenhower — has done an exceptionally good job of rallying around their candidate and showing unity.

As Reagan was famous for saying (he even called it The Eleventh Commandment), "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but what we're seeing right now is the biggest disavowal from a major political party since Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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Well both parties are to the right of Goldwater at this point.  Mission accomplished?

 
sho nuff said:
Because he isn't a good person, President, conservative?

Tale your pick.
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Yup.

The reality is that Trump is a Populist.  He does a lot of things that jibe with Conservative rhetoric because he draws a lot of water from that base...... but if you're a real Conservative; this guy is half a standard bearer.....and I'd imagine that they believe they could get all of the Conservative good that Trump brings with none of the bad qualities of Trump in just about any other Conservative candidate.

The cynic in me is saying that they're reading the tea leaves of Trumpism in the Republican Party and are coming to the conclusion that 4 more years of Trump will effectively ruin the traditional Party and bring forth a weird hybrid while Biden winning will galvanize the Party and allow it fall back, regroup and fight more effectively in 2022 and 2024.  

 
2Squirrels1Nut said:
1. John Kasich

2. Chuck Hagel

3. Ray LaHood

4. Colin Powell

5. Christine Whitman

6. Anthony Scaramucci,

7. Miles Taylor

8. Carly Fiorina

9. Meg Whitman

10. David Durenberger

11. Gordon J. Humphrey

12. John Warner

13. Jeff Flake

14. Susan Molinari

15. Charles Djou

16. Joe Walsh

17. Cindy McCain

18. Meghan McCain

19. Charlie Dent

20. Elizabeth Neumann

21. Steve Bartlett

22. Bill Clinger

23. Tom Coleman

24. Mickey Edwards

25. Wayne Gilchrest

26. Jim Greenwood

27. Bob Inglis

28. Jim Kolbe

29. Steve Kuykendall

30. Jim Leach

31. Connie Morella

32. Mike Parker

33. Jack Quinn

34. Claudine Schneider

35. Chris Shays

36. Peter Smith

37. Alan Steelman

38. Bill Whitehurst

39. **** Zimmer

40. Bill Cohen

41. George W Bush (Won't back Trump)

42. Jeb Bush (Won't back Trump)

43. Jim Mattis

44. John Kelly

45. Tom Bossert

46. Omarosa Manigault

47. Gary Cohn

48. Richard Spencer

49. Rex Tillerson

50. John Bolton

51. Mitt Romney (Won't back Trump)

52. Francis Rooney (Won't back Trump)

Also

~ A group of 73 former U.S. national security officials in the Republican administrations, including former heads of the CIA and FBI and Trump administration officials, endorsed Biden, asserting that Trump’s “corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president.”

~ Over 100 McCain staffers

~Dozens Of Romney 2012 Campaign Officials Announce Support For Biden

~43 George W. Bush campaign and administration staffers

Link 1

Link 2

These people have held or hold some of the highest position in our government and know Trump better than anyone here at FBG's.  I hope that those of you planning on voting Trump will at least consider this and maybe change your mind.
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Democrats who support trump.   Non govt union members. 

 
Joe Summer said:
500 former national security advisors have signed an open letter endorsing Joe Biden, including retired General Paul Selva, who served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration.
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It's astounding the psychological repression one must go through to support Trump while so many well respected, lifelong Republicans who served in his administration say this guy is unfit.  "Why would I trust General Kelly, General Mattis, and H.R. McMaster when Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have the real scoop on this guy." 

 
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