Opinion: More Republicans than I can list support Harris, fear Trump

Conservatives and independents shouldn’t pay much mind to liberals like me who fear what might happen if Donald Trump becomes the next president. We are legion, but our opinions are predictable.

No, the people worth paying attention to as we close in on next month’s election are the Republicans who fear what might happen if Trump wins. They are also large in number, and growing, but more important, their voices are anything but predictable.

They are, in fact, remarkable. I certainly can’t recall a time when this many high-ranking and notable members of a political party have outright rejected their own party’s presidential nominee. With former President Trump, it has happened and continues to happen over and over again.

On Thursday, influential former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, a Republican who served in Congress for 36 years, endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, saying of Trump: “He's just totally unhinged. We don't need this chaos. We need to move forward, and that's why I'm where I am.”

Also Thursday, Wisconsin’s longest-serving Republican lawmaker, state Sen. Robert Cowles of Green Bay, announced: “I plan on voting for Harris.”

“Trump has to be defeated, and we have to protect the Constitution. And the country will go on even with some liberal things that Harris might do, or might not do,” Cowles said. “You have to have the foundation of the Constitution, to protect democracy. If you don’t have that, we will........

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