Dozens of Republicans put off by Trump cultism including former Rep. Charlie Dent, former DHS official Miles Taylor, and John Mitnick, Trump's DHS general counsel, have discussed the formation of a breakaway party and held talks over a Zoom call hosted by Evan McMullin, chief policy director for the House Republican Conference.
Reuters reports: “The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say. More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of ‘principled conservatism,' including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law…”
