‘How can Republicans not like that?’ Ex-GOP lawmaker makes conservative case for Harris
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) opened up to MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Thursday about why she is enthusiastically backing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — her first time going for the Democratic ticket — and outlined why, despite Harris’ liberal beliefs, traditional, conservative Republicans would have a lot to like in a Harris administration, even beyond desires to dethrone former President Donald Trump from their party’s leadership.
This comes after Harris has spent weeks pushing to win support and endorsements from Republicans in battleground states, culminating this week in a massive Republicans for Harris event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.
“What brought you and, frankly, many other Republicans to this place?” asked Melber.
“Well, you’re right. It was a great event yesterday,” said Comstock. “It was at that wonderful historic site where George Washington crossed. So very, you know, patriotic event. It was about country over party.”
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“But there is a lot to agree on, frankly, with the Vice President, and a lot of the Republicans there do agree with her on things,” said Comstock. For example, “She has promised to pass the border bill that James Lankford, conservative Republican, negotiated with Democrats and Republicans. She wants to pass that child tax credit that, you know, started with the Contract with America back with Newt Gingrich and George Bush did it, it was actually in the Trump tax bill. So she wants to get it back, and she wants to supersize it for infants in the first year. So that’s a great family policy. And then of course she supports Ukraine, supports our allies, is strong in standing up to Putin, and that’s something all of us Reagan conservatives like. And there was national, you know, national security conservatives there yesterday.”
Meanwhile, she continued, “As a Republican, I have got to say, you know, I love that we finally passed an infrastructure bill during this administration, with a lot of good Republican support, particularly in the Senate. People like Mitt Romney and my friend Todd Young from Indiana and, you know, Susan Collins and people like that. And then 43,000, the market hitting all-time highs.”
“How can Republicans not like that?” she added. “There is a lot of things to like.”
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