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On August 4, U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris showed off the support of more than two dozen Republican members who served in the White House during former President Trump's administration at a campaign event on Sunday.

Nearly 30 Republicans are said to be listed as part of the "New Republicans for Harris" initiative launched on Sunday. They include Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary during the Trump era, and Olivia Troy, a national security official who served as national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, Republican cabinet members during former President Obama's administration, are also included in the list of people supporting Harris.

By making public the names of those who betrayed Trump as Republican presidential candidates, these officials' shift became a powerful weapon to hit Trump's election campaign.

Trump responded immediately to this.

"We must purge the Republican Party of those who oppose our presidential candidate, losers like Jeff Duncan," Trump said in a post on his own Truth Social website on Sunday, referring to Jeff Duncan, a former lieutenant governor of Georgia and a Republican who announced his support for Harris.

Trump won the Republican presidential nomination on July 18

Harris' campaign's new push to target Republican voters comes two weeks after incumbent President Biden announced his withdrawal from the reelection race and endorsed Harris' candidacy. Since then, the current U.S. vice president has gained early support with a political whirlwind of record donations, volunteer sign-ups and a surge in polls, and has quickly narrowed the gap with Trump's voters.

Despite Harris' initial meteoric rise, she and Trump remain in a tight race that could be decided by narrow electoral margins this November. That potential statistical deadlock is why the Harris campaign is targeting undecided Republicans who could be persuaded to become anti-Trump voters.

Austin Weatherford, Harris campaign's outreach director for Republicans, said in a memo: "Trump's MAGA extremist platform is toxic to millions of Republicans who no longer believe he represents the values ​​of their party and will vote against him in November."

"Vice President Harris and our campaign are working overtime to win over Republican colleagues who care about defending democracy and restoring decency," Weatherford said. But this would mean a split within the Republican Party.

Harris' campaign is undermining Trump and creating divisions within the Republican Party

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