As Election Day Approaches, More Republicans are Breaking Ranks
In Kansas, Idaho, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Washington, longtime GOP officeholders and business leaders are putting country over party.
What do these life-long Republicans all have in common?
Former governors of Kansas Bill Graves and Mike Hayden. Idaho’s former Gov. Phil Batt, former Attorney General and Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones and former Secretary of State Ben Ysursa.
Former Pennsylvania Congresswoman and state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman Greenwood of Pennsylvania. Michigan business leader Bill Parfet, chairman and CEO of commercial real estate company Northwood Group.
Kathy McDonald, vice chair of the Clark County Republican Party in Washington State. Julie Olson, a two-term Republican member of the Clark County Council.
They are just a few examples of Republicans who are prominent in their states or counties who are breaking ranks with the MAGA faction that has taken over their party and publicly endorsing Democrats running for office.
It’s interesting to look at how they are couching these announcements. Not all of them are directly confronting the conspiracy-thinking or rancid…
