There’s reason to think the numbers of anti-Trump Republicans and Trump skeptics have grown since the 2020 election.
First, there was the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which saw a large number of Republicans — including some on his own staff — break from Trump.
Then, there was the significant protest vote lodged against Trump in this year’s GOP primary after his rivals, namely former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, ended their campaigns.
Said former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who appeared alongside Vice President Harris in Pennsylvania and soured on Trump after the 2020 election. “There’s peer pressure in politics. It’s a real thing, and so a lot of Republicans don’t want to publicly state, and that’s what I think is leading to the tightness of the polls that we see. I think there’s a whisper caucus that’s going to do something different than they’re signaling.”
The Harris campaign sees not only Jan. 6, but the fact that a number of prominent former Trump administration officials — including former Vice President Mike Pence — view him as unfit to be president, as key to their message.
The Harris campaign believes Trump-skeptical Republicans are the secret pro-Harris voters who will win them the election. Team Trump thinks it’s a mirage.
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