‘Republicans for Harris’ Have Settled on Their Pitch: She’s Not Trump

Anti-Trump Republicans are making their pitch to GOP moderates: You may not agree with most of what Harris believes, but a Republican Senate will keep her in check.

Denver Riggleman, Barbara Comstock and Olivia Troye at a Republicans for Harris gathering.
Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock spoke alongside former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman and former Trump national security adviser Olivia Troye at a Republicans for Harris gathering in Alexandria, Virginia. Katherine Swartz/NOTUS

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Republicans appear to have settled on their argument to convince other Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris — and it has nothing to do with Harris herself.

Former GOP congressman and Freedom Caucus member-turned Jan. 6 committee staff member Denver Riggleman summed up his argument to a crowd of anti-Trumpers in a nearby Washington, D.C., suburb on Thursday afternoon: A vote for Harris doesn’t mean you agree with Harris; it means you disagree with Donald Trump.

“Anybody who’s been found liable for sexual abuse, somebody that’s a felon, somebody that’s a conspiracy theorist, somebody who helped to incite J-6, somebody who’s an apologist for Putin, somebody who is immoral, somebody who doesn’t understand foreign policy, and somebody who has such a bad connection to the truth, should not be president of the United States,” he said. “And that’s why I’m supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”