TIMELINE: When 110 Republicans Reached Their Breaking Point With Trump (VIDEO)

According to the New York Times, the number of key Republicans who have refused to support their party’s nominee has reached 110. Reporters Karen Yourish and Larry Buchanan have tracked the timing of each announcement, and the words or actions of Donald Trump that prompted the announcement.

December 7, 2015:

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

  1.  U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble  (Wis.)
  2. Christine Todd Whitman, former  governor of New Jersey. Whitman said:

“Trump … is employing the kind of hateful rhetoric and exploiting the insecurities of this nation, in much the same way that allowed Hitler and Mussolini to rise to power in the lead-up to World War II.”

December 18, 2015:

“When people call you brilliant it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.”

  1.  Rep. Bob Dold (Ill.)

February 28, 2016:

“I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

  1. Senator Ben Sasse (Neb.)
  2. Paul Wolfowitz. former Deputy Secretary of Defense
  3. Ken Mehlman, former White House Political Director and former Chair of the Republican National Committee
  4. Mel Martinez. former governor of Florida, former senator from Florida
  5. Representative Scott Rigell (Vir.)
  6. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts
  7.  Robert D. Blackwill, former chief Iraq adviser to the National Security Council
  8. Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security
  9. About 100 other national security leaders, many of whom served in Republican administrations, signed a letter stating they were:

“unable to support a party ticket with Mr. Trump at its head.”

March 3, 2016: Trump said:

“Look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands—’if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

  1. Norm Coleman, former senator from Minnesota
  2. Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican nominee for president. Romney said:

“He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president.”

3. Rep.Richard Hanna (N.Y.)
4.  Mickey Edwards, former U.S. representative from Oklahoma
5. Rudy Fernandez, former special assistant to President George W. Bush

March 23, 2016:  Trump released this tweet:   

1. Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland

As of May 3, 2016: Trump amassed enough pledged delegates to become the presumptive nominee.

  1. U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.)
  2. Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida
  3. Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
  4. Bob Inglis, former Congressman from South Carolina
  5. Rosario Marin, former U.S.  Treasurer under President George W. Bush

June 5, 2016: concerning Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, who is presiding over litigation against Trump University:

“I’ve been treated very unfairly by this judge.  Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. And I’m building a wall.”

  1. Sen. Mark S. Kirk (Ill.)
  2. Christopher Shays, former representative from Connecticut. Shays said:

“Just when you think he can’t dig a hole deeper, he accuses a Mexican judge of not being competent to rule on the case.” 

      3.  Tom Campbell, former representative from California.

June 14, 2016: Two days after the Orlando shooting, Trump said:

“President Obama claims to know our enemy, and yet he continues to prioritize our enemy over our allies and, for that matter, the American people. When I am president, it will always be America first.”

  1.  Arne Carlson, former Governor of Minnesota
  2. Richard L. Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State
  3. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush
  4. Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Treasury Secretary under President George W. Bush. Paulson said:

“The G.O.P., in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear, and isolationism.”

5.   Marc F. Racicot, former Governor of Montana and Chair of the Republican National Committee.

July 27, 2016:

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

July 30, 2016: concerning the Muslim Gold Star parents who spoke at the Democratic convention:

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably—maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”

  1. Rep. Charlie Dent (Penn.)
  2. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.)
  3. Vin Weber, former Congressman from Minnesota
  4. Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.)
  5. Gordon J. Humphrey, former senator from New Hampshire

 

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6. Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
7. Lezlee Westine, director of the White House public liaison office under President George W. Bush.
8. William G. Milliken, former governor of Michigan
9. Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania
10. John D. Negroponte, former Director of National Intelligence
11. Donald B. Ayer, former Deputy Attorney General
12. John B. Bellinger III, former legal adviser to the Department of State and National Security Council
13. Michael V. Hayden, former CIA director
14. Carla A. Hills, former U.S. trade representative
and about 50 other senior national security officials who served under Republican presidents, many from the George W. Bush administration.

September 2, 2016: Republicans for Clinton announced that six more activists and public officials had joined their ranks:

 

  1. Charles Dunne, former strategic policy adviser to the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy at the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and former Iraq director for the National Security Council
  2. Robert Manning, former member of the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning
  3. Jennifer Sarver, former Bush Administration official, former Senate staffer
  4. Jim Magill, Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) U.S. Air Force
  5. Mario Mangiameli, Captain US Marine Corps (Ret.) and former Counterterrorism & Law Enforcement Policy Advisor, US Department of Homeland Security
  6. Charles Badger, former Director of Coalitions for Jeb Bush 2016, former Director of Legislative Affairs (NJ-Department of Community Affairs, Christie Administration)
  7. David Meyers, former White House Assistant Staff Secretary and former Communications Adviser for the Senate Republican Leadership
Michelle Oxman is a writer, blogger, wedding officiant, and recovering attorney. She lives just north of Chicago with her husband, son, and two cats. She is interested in human rights, election irregularities, access to health care, race relations, corporate power, and family life.Her personal blog appears at www.thechangeuwish2c.com. She knits for sanity maintenance.