Multiple Republicans are calling for reforms within the GOP and threatening to create their own party if members do not immediately break away from former President Trump. According to reports first broken by Reuters, more than 100 former Republican officials plan to release their “demands” in a letter Thursday called “A Call For American Renewal.”
The Hill reports:
The letter states that Republicans must “either reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative,” according to NBC News.
Reuters noted that among the signatories on the letter are former Republican Govs. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, as well as former President George W. Bush’s Transportation secretary, Mary Peters, and former GOP Reps. Charlie Dent, Barbara Comstock, Reid Ribble and Mickey Edwards.
One of the organizers behind the effort is Miles Taylor, a former Trump administration who penned the initially anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”
“The Republican Party is broken. It’s time for a resistance of the ‘rationals’ against the ‘radicals,'” Taylor told Reuters, referring to those in the party who still faithfully align themselves with Trump.
“We’re ready to get out there and fight against the radical elements in the party to try to excise those elements from within the GOP and our national politics and to try to invest in the deeper pro-democracy bench,” he said.
The effort comes as the Republican Party just voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from her position as Chair of House GOP Conference.