These Republicans say they won’t vote for Trump. Here are the options they’re considering
Becky Edwards is sick of "the ick" surrounding former President Donald Trump. Krista Kafer says the path toward his coronation "grosses" her out. And Jennifer Horn considers him a "grotesque" threat to democracy.
All three Republican women ‒ and millions of other voters like them ‒ are facing a crisis of faith as Trump grows closer to locking up the GOP's presidential nomination, drawing endorsements from challengers he only recently was insulting.
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Edwards, 63, recently launched the Governing Group, a Utah-focused political action committee dedicated to supporting GOP and unaffiliated candidates who explicitly commit to constructive and collaborative governance.
Like some other Republican voters, Edwards wants to see her party return to the days of Ronald Reagan's "Big Tent," where everyone was welcome to share conservative values of law and order, fiscal restraint, morality and civility.
Trump, she said, has swayed millions of her fellow Republicans to his side despite his penchant for big spending, questionable morals and behavior that's opened him up to multiple criminal prosecutions.
"To see people just ignore that for policies, and then ignore policies because they've decided he's a candidate they are going to support?" Edwards said. "It's extremely disappointing. It just shows a real lack of backbone."
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As former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Horn very early on became a "Never Trump" campaigner, working with the anti-Trump Lincoln Project to oppose his candidacy. She said the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the 91 charges pending against him indicate he's not worthy of being president again.
"I will not vote for Trump and I will not vote for a Republican unwilling to denounce Trump," said Horn, 59. "He is a grotesque, narcissistic, emotionally ill criminal who has already made it clear he is willing to toss aside the Constitution and incite an insurrection. That goes completely against everything I used to believe the Republican Party was about."