Republicans for Harris kicks off Pennsylvania effort
By: Jonathan D. Salant (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Whad'Ya know. Kamala Harris is more Republican than Donald Trump. MAGA wins again.
Stories like these should dispel any doubts that the Party of Reagan has been ultra-liberal all along. Republicans have been lying to the electorate for 40 years.
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WASHINGTON — An effort to convince Pennsylvania Republicans who oppose Donald Trump to cross party lines and support Kamala Harris gets underway Monday with an ex-congressman and some Western Pennsylvanians who served under Republican governors leading the way.
Pennsylvania is one of three states where the campaign will kick off this week, the others being Arizona and North Carolina. Almost 1 in 5 Republicans who voted in this year’s Pennsylvania primary cast their ballots for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley even though she had ended her campaign weeks before, showing a potential weakness for Trump among some GOP voters in the general election.
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Greenwood from the Philadelphia suburbs and former Lancaster County GOP Chair Ann Womble will lead the Pennsylvania group, which also includes Murray Dickman of Pittsburgh, who worked for former Gov. Richard Thornburgh, and Jim Seif, who grew up in Penn Hills and served in then-Gov. Tom Ridge’s administration.
“I absolutely would not support and will not support Donald Trump,” Mr. Greenwood said. “I think he is completely unfit for office. I believe he is a malignant narcissist, a pathological liar and a con man.”
The national organization was announced Sunday and includes not only Mr. Greenwood but also former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, former Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman, and former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a member of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol.
“Vice President Harris and our campaign are working overtime to earn the support of my fellow Republicans who care about defending democracy and restoring decency –- all of which would be torn away in a second Trump presidency,” said the Harris campaign’s national director of Republican outreach, Austin Weatherford.
The group’s formation is just another example of how Ms. Harris has tapped into enthusiasm that wasn’t there when Joe Biden was the apparent nominee.
“It made a tremendous difference,” Mr. Greenwood said. “When she came on board, there was an electric charge.”
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Another win for MAGA. It's going to be a slow, painful process but eventually the Reagan rat basterds will go back to their own roost.
Any bets on how many times Kamala Harris quotes Ronald Reagan at the DNC convention?
Here is some of what Trump has built.
What has Kamala Harris built? That's okay, Ronald Reagan didn't build anything, either.
Yeah, nice. He should probably stick to that. Because nothing about that experience seems to have given him any special knowledge of the law, or insight into governing a federal republic, or uniting different factions to the benefit of all.
Why is New York the center of finance in the US? Doesn't seem likely that law and order would be attractive to financial gamblers.
Like Democrats have any knowledge for governing.
Where have you been for the last eight years and counting while they shit all over the law and Constitution?
We are just as divided now as when Trump was in office- thanks Joe!
See, I’m so sick of this of this tribal whataboutism that goes on around here. I commented on the man and his background. I didn’t say anything about the party, now did I?
I swear I could say it’s a nice, sunny day and someone would come along and be all, “what do Democrats know about sun?” It’s just so lame. And btw, I’m not even a Democrat.
More word salad showing she knows nothing about anything................
For those without facebook..................
I keep looking up but I can't see the cloud with all the data that she is talking about.
It was so cloudy yesterday that it started raining 1s and 0s.