"Republicans...Should Vote for Democrats." with Republican Christine Todd Whitman
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Christine Todd Whitman was the Republican Governor of New Jersey. And Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for President George W. Bush. Now she is trying to save the Republican Party from within. In a New York Times Op-ed, she advocates Republicans voting for centrist Democrats and Democrats voting for centrist Republicans. You can find our more about her organization here: RenewAmericaMovement.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:10.2 | We all know that Will Rogers once famously said, I don't belong to any organized political party. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm a Democrat. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, while it's true that Democrats are always disorganized, that's also true of Republicans |
| 0:24.3 | today who are trying to figure out what to do about Donald Trump. |
| 0:29.2 | For some, it's easy. |
| 0:30.8 | They're 100 percent Trumpers, believe he's the ticket to winning the midterms in 2022 |
| 0:37.0 | and hope and pray that he runs again for president in |
| 0:40.1 | 2024. But there's a growing number of Republicans who believe just the opposite, that Trump has |
| 0:47.5 | destroyed the old Republican Party and just want him to go away so they can rebuild the party the way it used to be. |
| 0:56.7 | How far are they willing to go? |
| 0:58.7 | Well, you won't believe how far. |
| 1:00.8 | Last week in the New York Times, one top Republican, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, |
| 1:07.4 | actually argued that the best thing Republicans could do to get rid of Donald Trump is to vote for Democrats. |
| 1:14.6 | I gotta tell you, in all my years in politics, I never heard anything like that. |
| 1:20.6 | So I reached out to Governor Whitman and invited her to join us and make her case today on the Bill Presspot. |
| 1:28.7 | Governor Whitman, good to talk to you, and thank you for joining us today on the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm pleased to be with you. |
| 1:35.8 | So, Governor, you certainly dropped a bombshell last week in the New York Times, with your op-ed, |
| 1:42.6 | headline of which, I'll read now, we are Republicans with a plea, |
| 1:47.9 | elect Democrats. I guess I got to start by asking you, Governor, are you serious about that? |
| 1:54.7 | Oh, absolutely. What we're saying is that when Republicans are faced with an extreme right Republican candidate versus a |
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