Kinzinger is about to retire following hostility from his Republican colleagues and death threats from voters. On October 22, he was at the Salt Lake City Public Library to testify for Mr. McMullin, a former CIA officer, in the his attempt to overthrow Mr. Leewho cheered Mr. Trump’s bid to stay in office after the 2020 election, Mr. Lee privately provided in a text told White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, “a group of loyal and willing supporters will come out for him.”
Declaring that “democracy is on the rise,” Kinzinger told Utah voters last month, “This is the best opportunity I’ve seen in this country, and I mean to send a message, to build build something new, send someone that can change the status quo”.
His first National political organization approved a bipartisan group of “defenders of democracy”, which includes Josh Shapiro and Katie Hobbs, Democrats running for governor of Pennsylvania and Arizona, and Democratic candidates for secretary of state in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Minnesota. But the political action committee spends almost no money. For that matter, Ms. Cheney’s PAC, The Great Mission, is no exception to advertising in Arizona and the money it has spent on her failed attempt to prevent the Republican Party’s first defeat in this summer.
Several other groups are nominally still affiliated with the Republican Party, such as Lincoln project, is rejecting the party it has grown estranged from on social media and in TV ads aimed at exposing frustrated Republicans and independents. The Republican Accountability Project Collected Testimonials from disgruntled Republican voters, turned into billboards and advertisements.
“As a country, whether we can protect our self-government in the years to come, even in the next two cycles, will depend on whether we can focus on it. whether or not Republicans, Democrats, and independents remain committed to American democracy, to the Constitution, and to the reality of objective truth,” McMullin said in an interview today. Monday. “Are the votes there? Yes, they are there. Can we bring them together? That is the challenge. “
To that end, the power that Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger bring is their personal stories of defiance and excommunication. Ms. Cheney was stingy with her assertions, choosing the races she saw as the biggest threat to democracy and the Democratic candidates she could personally endorse. But for candidates like Ms. Slotkin, it makes events like Tuesday’s that much more valuable.
“For Democrats who are vulnerable in really tight races, a lot of those voters are college-educated voters who value the independence of candidates, and get more validation from Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger saying, ‘Hey, this Republican opponent isn’t pale,'” said Sarah Longwell, a Republican pollster who helped found the Project. Republican Accountability Court, said.
