RVAT volunteer Rory Kennedy published this op-ed in The Capital Times: “I’m a Republican, and I won’t be backing Trump.” He writes:
The Republican National Convention will take place here in Milwaukee on July 15. As a cheesehead and lifelong Republican, I should be elated.
Instead, I don’t know what to feel. I voted for Donald Trump before, but this time our nominee is a convicted felon. The Republican Party I grew up with stood for law and order. We prided ourselves on being the “rule of law” party and championed personal accountability. Now, all of our morals have been replaced with lies.
And all of these lies stem from Trump.
Those lies started well before my breaking point, which began when he denied the results of the 2020 election. Every election has some degree of variability. Mistakes happen. But no one has found any proof that there was enough fraud to change the results of the election in even one county, much less the whole country. When Trump knowingly lied to his supporters that the election was stolen, he put poll workers and other election officials in danger. Just look at Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in Georgia, who recently received a large settlement for the harassment they faced.