WASHINGTON, June 23 — Dozens of Republican former US national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party. The...
The group said that Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden was a better choice due to Trump posing a threat to US national security . — Reuters pic
They will argue that another four years of a Trump presidency would endanger US national security and that Republican voters should view Biden as the better choice despite policy differences, the sources said. “Trump pals around with dictators. He’s a real danger,” a person involved in the group said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Other groups of anti-Trump Republicans also are opposing his re-election including the Lincoln Project, co-founded by George Conway, husband of Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway. It is running anti-Trump ads in key battleground states. “Joe Biden is running for president to unite this country and undo Donald Trump’s chaos, and we are building the broadest possible coalition to do that, which includes Republicans who are horrified by what they have witnessed over the past four years,” Ducklo said.
Trump has faced an unusual outpouring of criticism from members of the military establishment including from prominent retired generals such as James Mattis, his first defense secretary, and Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state under George W. Bush. Both denounced Trump’s response to the protests that erupted after the May 25 death of an African-American man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
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