Following the cringe-worthy fundraising Zoom call from “White Dudes for Harris,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has unveiled its newest strategy, aiming at a demographic not traditionally supportive of far-left liberals: “Republicans for Harris.”
As a part of her attempts to appeal to liberal-leaning Republicans, she has also attempted to distance herself from the radically progressive policies she has supported for her entire public career.
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The Republicans for Harris campaign will leverage endorsements from former Republican lawmakers such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, an anti-Trump CNN personality, in an attempt to draw voters away from former President Donald Trump.
“Today, Harris for President is launching Republicans for Harris, a grassroots organizing program to further outreach efforts to the millions of Republican voters who continue to reject the chaos, division, and violence of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda,” said the Harris campaign.
Kinzinger, who previously endorsed President Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race, used Harris’s announcement to reaffirm his support for the far-left candidate.
“There is nothing “conservative” about Donald Trump. Conservatives believe in the Constitution, not a “man’s” ego. Endorsing American democracy and the future today, and leaving the past in the dust. I’m endorsing @KamalaHarris,” said Kinzinger on X.
The announcement also included endorsements from numerous other former Republicans who prefer Harris to Trump, including former Trump White House officials Stephanie Grisham, who served as Trump’s third press secretary, and Olivia Troye, who served as an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.
According to the Associated Press, which spoke to Harris’ campaign, the Republicans for Harris initiative plans to focus on drawing in Republicans who voted for Nikki Haley in the Republican Primary, though estimates vary on how large that population is, and hopes to use Republicans who have already pledged their support for Harris to draw in voters.
The new program seemingly relies on the hope that “never-Trump” Republicans’ hatred for their party’s nominee will surpass their reluctance to vote for a candidate who, during her time in the Senate, was labeled the most liberal senator of 2019.
The tactic is calibrated to signal to voters that Harris is more mainstream and moderate than her record would indicate by generating headlines referring to “Republicans for Harris.”
The Harris campaign was successful in getting predictable headlines from several Maine media outlets, which hastened to cover a series of endorsements from alleged Republicans without questioning their actual ties to the Maine Republican Party.
The top names from the group include Peter Mills, the brother of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, Tony Payne, a lobbyist, and Roger Katz, a former state senator who frequently crashed with conservative former Gov. Paul LePage.
Since launching her campaign in July, Harris has attempted to backtrack on some of her more extreme positions in an attempt to appeal to more swing voters.
While running in the 2020 Democratic primary, Harris promised to ban fracking, a method of extracting natural gas that has been controversial among environmental activists but remains popular among many working-class Americans. Fracking is also largely responsible for surging domestic energy production and lower prices for hydro-carbon based energy.
After Trump highlighted Harris’ extreme positions on several issues, Harris’s campaign backtracked and promised not to ban fracking, apparently fearing that a ban on the energy production method would alienate voters.
Estimates vary, but the petroleum industry directly employs more than 20,000 Pennsylvania voters, and that state is regarded as pivotal for a Democratic candidate to win the election in November.
Environmental policy is far from the only issue where Harris diverges from centrist voters.
Although Harris has been careful to never call for the outright abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), she has opposed funding the federal law enforcement agency, compared ICE agents to Ku Klux Klansmen, and claimed that she would “think about starting from scratch” on the agency.
After her 2024 presidential bid began, Harris’s campaign began to claim that Harris supports border security and even wants more border patrol agents.
That change comes after it became clear during President Biden’s disastrous re-election campaign that immigration and border security are winning issues for Republicans.
During the 2020 election, Harris took a drastic stand against 2nd Amendment rights, calling for a mandatory gun buyback similar to the system used to confiscate firearms from citizens in Australia.
“We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” said Harris. “It’s got to be smart, we’ve got to do it the right way. But there are 5 million [assault weapons] at least, some estimate as many as 10 million, and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets, but doing it the right way.”
Since her campaign began, Harris has flip-flopped on that position as well, recanting her support for a mandatory buyback. Although, if elected, she is likely to make at least some attempts to curtail gun rights.
Harris’s attempt to appeal to registered Republicans has also led her to walk back one of her more openly socialist positions.
While in the Senate, Harris co-sponsored a bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an avowed socialist, which would have enacted a Medicare for All socialized medicine system, essentially killing private health insurance.
Following that sponsorship, Harris doubled down on her push for socialized health care, openly admitting during her 2020 campaign that she would make private health insurance illegal, forcing Americans to rely on the state for their health care.
She has once again changed her position since the start of her 2024 election bid, claiming that she will no longer support a ban on private health insurance.
It is unclear whether Harris’s flip-flops will be enough to make Never-Trump Republicans forget her far-left record, as Trump’s campaign has focused many of its attacks on simply pointing out Harris’s previous statements.
The smell of desperation is overpowering. Tell you what, you can have Collins we’ll call it even.
Guess they had to give up on “white dudes” because turns out it was no different than kkk for robert bird.
Republicans for a communist. Isn’t that sweet. The woman whose most famous policies are an open border and paying to get BLM terrorists out of jail by encouraging people to donate to a go fund me page for terrorist who like to burn down black neighborhoods. The same cackling idiot who just picked a VP candidate who put tampons in boys restrooms in Minnesota schools. Any republican who goes to work for CNN had his testicles cut off long ago.
I am a Republican but I identify as a democrat for Trump, lol. Anyone can play that game.
and then she selects tampon tim
The quicker you realize that nearly ALL Republicrats upon being elected to office IMMEDIATLYself- Identify as a Democrat , While NO Democrats self -identify as a Republican.The quicker your sanity will return .The Republican party in Maine is only interested in self enrichment , look at the Globalist Collins that they keep trotting out . She has NEVER MET with a single working person unless it was a staged photo -op. Now the Aroostook County Mafia is pushing a Canidate Austin Theriault that believes in 3 Genders . But don’t worry he is already broken in to Gov’t corruption he and Try Jackson ” Spun a wheel and Cut a deal ” to enrich his Father not bad for a 1st term State Rep. He will do well in the DC Swamp. I find it hilarious that you people think you can vote your way out of this ….
I agree with Sam Brady whole heartedly. Sadly Maine is lost and all the DemocRATS and Republicans want is money and power.