Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult'
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By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush's administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month. These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen. But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served. Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters. "The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I'd call it the cult of Trump," said Jimmy Gurule, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration. Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House's communications office for six years, said roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have decided to leave the party or are cutting ties with it, from conversations he has been having. "The number is growing …
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Although reports of many Republicans leaving the party are certainly interesting, it doesnt mean much unless those people also withhold their votes from Republican candidates.
... organize their own long-term activities. If all they do is drop out, the Trumpists will be happy to fill the vacuum.
... but it has been so long since any ''conservative'' actually suggested anything other than tax breaks for the rich, I'm not sure that they have anything else.
At all.
It's not hard to imagine people saying they are no longer Republicans but then vote for Republican candidates anyway.
Of course.
OTOH, if people come to be ashamed of supporting Trump, they're half way to dropping him.
You're right about that.
I seriously doubt they'll vote for Democrats, though.
Just become indies, like I'm doing
They aren't the only ones, in several states the exodus of Republican voters is pretty impressive. At least ten thousand total and it is only beginning. Add all the companies who have halted donations and that list is ever increasing they literally will not have a party within a few months. No one wants to associate with the kind of party that supports or condones the attack on the capitol.