More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris for president
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
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USA TODAY White House Correspondent Joey Garrison discusses how hundreds of former aides of high profile Republican politicians have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court Monday to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump casts doubt on the September debate.
The Democratic Party has sued the Georgia State Election Board over new rules to 'prevent chaos.' USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi takes a closer look at the rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday August 27th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.3 | excerpt. Today hundreds of former aides of Republican political leaders have endorsed Kamla Harris. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus what new Georgia election rules mean. |
| 0:31.0 | And NASA astronauts will get a few additional unexpected months in space. |
| 0:37.4 | More than 200 former aides of several high-profile Republicans endorsed Vice President |
| 0:41.9 | Kamah Harris for president in an open letter yesterday obtained |
| 0:45.4 | exclusively by USA Today. |
| 0:47.8 | I spoke with USA Today, White House Correspondent Joey Gerecen to learn more. |
| 0:52.3 | Howdy, |
| 0:52.8 | Hey Taylor, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:54.4 | Thanks for hopping on. So Joey, what is this letter and who are some of the folks endorsing |
| 0:59.1 | Kamla Harris here? |
| 1:00.1 | 238 former Republican staffers for the last three presidential nominees prior to Trump. |
| 1:07.7 | You got Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W Bush, also a handful from his father, George H. Walker Bush, all endorsing |
| 1:16.0 | Kamala Harris here. These are either folks who worked in policy or press communications |
| 1:21.6 | or even on their campaign side as well, all coming out saying a second Trump presidency is unacceptable to them and they support Kamala Harris. |
| 1:31.0 | There was a similar group that formed, this one's actually a little bit bigger, a similar group |
| 1:34.8 | formed four years ago endorsing Joe Biden over Trump, and so now they say they are reunited again to try to get |
| 1:42.2 | Kamala Harris elected. |
| 1:44.0 | And Joey, did they outline reasons here for supporting the Democratic nominee? |
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