Jennifer Horn, the former president of the New Hampshire Republican Party and co-founder of the anti-Trump GOP group The Lincoln Project, announced Thursday in a new opinion that she would leave the Republican Party as President Trump
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Horn said she “became a Republican” because she viewed the party’s values as “a voice for equality, freedom and constitutional conservatism, with a rich history of fighting for what was right because she was right.”
“Over the past five years, however, I have found myself struggling with what I thought were the principles of my party in the face of the increasingly deteriorating character and integrity of party representatives,” Horn wrote in an opinion statement issued Thursday. USA Today. “They have revealed their impotence and decrepitude in falling, one by one, at the feet of the most corrupt, destructive and unstable president in the history of our country.”
“There seems to be no assault on human dignity too great, or an attack on democracy too extreme, to inspire weak Republicans in Congress to speak out or defend themselves in the face of President Donald Trump,” he continued.
The former Republican Party state official accused the elected Republican leaders of “keeping quiet about this president’s most despicable and sometimes barbaric actions. They have defended and excused their imputable betrayals.”
He added that “worst of all,” some Republicans “have openly supported their attempts to sabotage the Constitution and dismantle democracy as we know it.”
“Trump’s post-election attempts to invalidate millions of legitimate votes through an abuse of the judiciary are nothing short of an attempted coup and have been openly encouraged and supported by all levels of the Republican party,” he wrote. Horn, saying Republicans “humiliated and dishonored our great nation” and that “Lincoln’s party is no more.”
Following President Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his allies launched a list of legal challenges in states across the country in an effort to overturn the results.
Last week, the Supreme Court rejected a Texas candidacy, which was also backed by 18 GOP state attorneys and 126 House Republicans, who were trying to nullify Biden’s victories in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Horn told opinion he will change the voter register from Republican to Independent this week.
“I do it not for Trump, but for everyone else in the party who openly embraces Trumpism, because of the treacherous party leaders, and for a platform that advocates for equal rights for all,” he wrote.
Horn is not the only co-founder of the Lincoln Project who has resigned from the Republican Party this week. GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announced during an episode of the “Battleground” podcast released Monday that he is registering as a Democrat.