Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former communications official in the Trump administration, says that she is not supporting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election, in which he is now facing off against Vice President Kamala Harris, who took over for President Joe Biden at the helm of the Democratic Party for this year’s race for the presidency.
“I’m a Romney/Pence/Ryan/McCain Republican. I can’t support this guy. If that makes me a RINO, I wear it proudly,” Griffin wrote on social media around the time of a press conference that Trump held at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday that was widely panned as a train wreck.
Separately, the Harris campaign recently rolled out a new campaign initiative: Republicans for Harris, fueled by endorsements for the Democratic torchbearer from prominent Republicans including former Trump administration officials Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye.
“As someone who served in the Trump White House, I witnessed the destruction & chaos firsthand. A second Trump term will bring more turmoil. As a lifelong Republican, I may not agree with Kamala Harris on everything, but I trust her to protect our freedoms, uphold the rule of law & provide steady leadership on the world stage. That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris. #RepublicansforHarris,” Troye posted on social media.
Harris is getting a stream of promising poll results as she prepares for her newly forthcoming general election face-off with Trump, including a recent national survey that found an eight percent-lead for the Democrat among likely voters when candidates outside of the two major parties were also named for the poll’s participants. Perhaps most prominently, that list includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who briefly challenged President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary before dropping out for an independent presidential run.
