According to a new report, hundreds of Republicans who worked in the Bush(43) administration have united to form a new political action committee to help Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in November.
Karen Kirksey, director of the 43 Alumni for Biden super PAC and former USDA official under Bush, said the Republican Party had ”morphed into a cult of personality that little resembles the Party of Lincoln and Reagan.”
Kirksey said in a news release that the new super PAC was formed because of “the urgent need to restore the soul of this nation.”
As the Huffington Post reports, “The super PAC will include senior aides and former cabinet secretaries, Reuters reported, but it hasn’t released the names of all its members or donors yet. An “about” page on its website lists officials who worked in the White House, Treasury, Education and Energy departments, the EPA and on the Bush political campaigns.”
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“We believe that a Biden administration will adhere to the rule of law, ensure equal protection for all Americans and restore dignity and integrity to the White House,” organizing committee member Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House and on both election campaigns, said in a statement. “This November, we are choosing country over party.”
43 Alumni joins other conservative groups that are fighting to take down Trump in November, including The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump.
While these groups have fired off scathing and damaging ads against Trump, 43 Alumni will take a different approach that will focus on a pro-Biden message rather than an anti-Trump one.
“We just want to focus on the positives, and the positive message to us is we need a gentleman who actually acts like a leader and, again, restores dignity,” committee member Jennifer Millikin, who served in the General Services Administration under Bush, told The Hill. She also said that some of the names of the group’s high-profile members will be made public in the coming weeks.
The 43 Alumni for Biden group is calling on other Republicans to join, saying they don’t have to endorse the Democratic platform to help.
“This campaign is bigger than partisan politics,” the organization said. “We recognize that there may be policy differences among us, but we look forward to a time when civil, honest and robust policy discussions are the order of the day.”
