Seventeen Republicans who labored beneath former President Reagan endorsed Vice President Harris, her marketing campaign introduced in a press launch Sunday.
Within the endorsement, which cited Reagan’s “Time for Selecting” speech, the Republicans mentioned they imagine Reagan would have supported Harris’s presidential bid if he had been alive at this time.
“Whereas he isn’t right here to expertise the present second, we who labored for him within the White Home, within the Administration, in campaigns and on his private workers, know he would be part of us in supporting the Harris-Walz ticket,” they wrote in a press release.
The previous officers mentioned they hope different Republicans will observe them in supporting Harris.
“It’s our hope that this letter will sign to different Republicans and former Republicans that supporting the Democratic ticket this 12 months is the one path ahead towards an America that’s robust and viable for our kids and grandchildren for years to come back,” they wrote.
“The time for selecting we face at this time is a selection between integrity and demagoguery, and the selection should be Harris-Walz. The selection between fact and lies calls for help for Harris-Walz,” the previous officers wrote. “The selection between freedom and suppression of freedoms means help for Harris-Walz.”
Among the many Republicans listed are Kenneth Adelman, Reagan’s ambassador to the U.N. and U.S. arms management director; Carol Adelman, assistant administrator of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth; Elizabeth Board, deputy assistant to the president for communications; B. Jay Cooper, deputy assistant to the president beneath Reagan and deputy White Home press secretary to President George H. W. Bush; Pete Souza, official White Home photographer; and others.
The assertion follows a similar endorsement memo for Harris from greater than 230 former staffers for Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and for presidential nominees Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
The Harris marketing campaign has sought to emphasise its help from Republicans, and it made a degree to incorporate a number of Republican supporters on the Democratic Nationwide Conference. Just lately, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Harris.
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