On Thursday, 30 former Republican lawmakers released a letter saying they would not be voting for Donald Trump for president. “He has proven himself manifestly unqualified,” the signatories said of Trump. “Every day brings a fresh revelation that highlights the unacceptable danger in electing him.”
The letter was circulated by former Oklahoma Rep. Mickey Edwards and former Missouri Rep. Tom Coleman.
All of the lawmakers are former Republican members of Congress, and some are influential presences in battleground states, like former Rep. Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania and former Rep. G. William Whitehurst of Virginia.
It is not the first time a group of Republicans have written a letter against Donald Trump, and several officials from the George W. Bush administration have also spoken out against him
- Steve Bartlett (R-TX)
- Bob Bauman (R-MD)
- Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
- Jack Buechner (R-MO)
- Tom Campbell (R-CA)
- Bill Clinger (R-PA)
- Tom Coleman (R-MO)
- Geoff Davis (R-KY)
- Mickey Edwards (R-OK)
- Harris Fawell (R-IL)
- Ed Foreman (R-TX, NM)
- Amo Houghton, Jr. (R-NY)
- Gordon Humphrey (Senator, R-NH)
- Bob Inglis (R-SC)
- Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
- Steve Kuykendall (R-CA)
- Jim Leach (R-IA)
- Pete McCloskey (R-CA)
- Connie Morella (R-MD)
- Mike Parker (R-MS)
- Tom Petri (R-WI)
- John Porter (R-IL)
- Claudine Schneider (R-RI)
- John “Joe” Schwarz (R-MI)
- Chris Shays (R-CT)
- Peter Smith (R-VT)
- Edward Weber (R-OH)
- Vin Weber (R-MN)
- G. William Whitehurst (R-VA)
- Dick Zimmer (R-NJ)
