Help from dissident Republican leaders could be a decisive factor in the election’s outcome
, and fill the role of the much vaunted “mystery guest” we expected to appear on the convention’s final night?
The extraordinary number of Republicans who were already in Chicago endorsing the Vice President fueled the notion that Bush or Romney might follow suit. “He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she said of Trump, telling delegates that she had even heard the former president refer to his supporters as “basement dwellers”.
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois went further, sounding like a man who may eventually switch parties in a bid to return to electoral politics. Hounded out of office by Trump for the role he played supporting congressional investigations into the Capitol Hill uprising of 6 January, 2021, Kinzinger told the convention that Trump has “suffocated the soul of the Republican Party” and “has coursed through my party like an illness”.
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