On Sunday, former Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.) announced that she will vote for Vice President Harris for president, becoming the most recent former GOP member to depart from the party’s endorsement of former President Trump.
It occurs shortly after Denver Riggleman, another former Republican congressman from Virginia, supported Harris’s candidacy.
“After Jan. 6, after Donald Trump has refused for four years to acknowledge that he lost, and his threats against democracy, I think it’s important to turn the page. That’s why I will be voting for the vice president.” Comstock revealed during a recent appearance on CNN.
During the introduction of the “Republicans for Harris” initiative earlier this month, the Harris campaign released a high-profile list of endorsements, including Riggleman’s.
Riggleman, like Comstock, emphasized the events of the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
Comstock, who represented Virginia’s 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2019, was one of the Republican defectors who experienced persistent disagreements with Trump during his tenure in the White House.
After audio recordings of him making sexually obscene comments about groping women surfaced, she was among approximately two dozen Republican lawmakers who urged him to withdraw from the 2016 presidential campaign.
In 2018, she ultimately lost her reelection campaign; however, she has continued to be a vocal and shrill opponent of Trump in recent years.
Comstock also declared on Sunday that she did not vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020.
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