Hillary Clinton is receiving unprecedented endorsements from prominent Republican heavyweights.
Hillary Clinton keeps receiving endorsements from key Republicans in the wake of ongoing controversy surrounding the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
Most recently, “Hank Paulson, the Republican Treasury secretary during the 2008 financial crisis, has endorsed Hillary Clinton, adding his name to prominent GOP heavyweights who are backing the presumptive Democratic nominee,” according to a report by CNN.
Paulson elaborated on his endorsement in an article published by The Washington Post. “I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment and our place in the world,” Paulson wrote, adding: “To my Republican friends: I know I’m not alone.”
As CNN reports, “Brent Scowcroft, who served as National Security Adviser to Presidents George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford, and who worked in the White House of Presidents Richard Nixon and George W. Bush,” endorsed Hillary Clinton last Thursday, stating that Clinton “brings truly unique experience and perspective to the White House.”
“She brings deep expertise in international affairs and a sophisticated understanding of the world, which I believe are essential for the commander-in-chief,” Scowcroft continued, adding: “I believe Hillary Clinton has the wisdom and experience to lead our country at this critical time.”
Politico reported earlier this month that “Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party’s presumptive nominee.”
Armitage, a retired Navy officer who also served as an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is thought by Clinton aides to be the highest-ranking former GOP national security official to openly support Clinton over Trump.
“If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton,” Armitage told Politico, adding: “He doesn’t appear to be a Republican, he doesn’t appear to want to learn about issues. So, I’m going to vote for Mrs. Clinton.”
As Politico points out: “Dozens of Republican foreign policy elites have already declared their unwillingness to support or work for Trump, though far fewer say they would cast a ballot for Clinton. The latter group includes Max Boot, a prominent neoconservative military analyst and historian; Mark Salter, former longtime chief of staff to Republican Sen. John McCain; and retired Army Col. Peter Mansour, a former top aide to retired Gen. David Petraeus.”
Then there is Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, who will be speaking at an upcoming Clinton fundraiser according to a report published last Thursday by Foreign Policy.
Characterizing Kagan as “A prominent neoconservative intellectual and early promoter of the Iraq War,” Foreign Policy reports that “The move signals a shift in the Clinton campaign’s willingness to associate with prominent Republicans and is the latest sign of how far some GOP defectors are willing to go to block a Donald Trump presidency.”
You must be logged in to post a comment Login