WASHINGTON — When Kamala Harris accepted her occasion’s presidential nomination on the Democratic conference final month, a number of former presidents, vice presidents and nominees to those posts got here collectively in a present of public assist for her bid for the White Home.
Barack Obama. Invoice Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). President Joe Biden, who even dropped his reelection bid to unify not simply Democrats, however Individuals.
And on Donald Trump’s aspect? Which previous Republican presidents, vice presidents and nominees are lining up behind him?
We didn’t see any of them converse in assist of him on the GOP conference in July, however certainly they’re on the market.
Right here, introduced for the primary time, is an exhaustive record of the earlier Republican presidents, vice presidents and nominees to those posts who’ve publicly stated they are going to be voting for Trump in November:
1. Sarah Palin.
That’s it. That’s the entire record.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee reaffirmed her support for Trump in March 2023.
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney stated he’s “completely not” voting for Trump. Neither is former Vice President Dick Cheney, former vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, or, presumably, former Vice President Dan Quayle, who helped forestall Trump from stealing the election in 2020. Trump’s personal former vice chairman, Mike Pence, whom Trump almost bought killed on Jan. 6, 2021, stated “it ought to come as no shock” that he won’t endorse Trump.
Former Republican President George W. Bush has not stated if he’s voting for Trump, however in 2020 he reportedly stated he would not support his reelection.
Bush didn’t have a positive response to Trump’s inaugural deal with in 2016, the place Trump described the nation as a darkish wasteland of American carnage: “That was some bizarre shit,” Bush reportedly stated.
