'Silent majority': Ex-GOP lawmaker flags voting bloc she says will quietly vote for Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Pennsylvania with more than 100 Republican officials who support her presidential campaign against Donald Trump.
Former conservative congresswoman Barbara Comstock, a Virginia Republican, spoke to The Daily Beast during her drive north to the crucial swing state, where she will join fellow GOP dissidents near the site where George Washington crossed the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War to warn of the threat Trump poses to American democracy.
“He just cannot be in the Oval Office again,” Comstock said, adding that she believes Harris will win. “I think there’s a silent majority. I think there’s a silent group of women who will crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump and who will quietly vote for Harris.”
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The 65-year-old Comstock, who served three terms in Congress and called on Trump to drop out of the 2016 race after the "Access Hollywood" tape's release, will join the Democratic nominee Wednesday at Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia.
“I cannot have a rapist in the Oval Office," said Comstock, who was a GOP congressional aide investigating former president Bill Clinton in the 1990s. “I was offended by Clinton – but, oh, that was nothing compared to this.”
Comstock, who says she "wrote in" another candidate in each of Trump's previous races rather than vote for a Democrat, will join former Trump aides, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman and a number of former GOP members of Congress, including Adam Kinzinger, and she hopes to spread the word to fellow conservatives who may not appreciate the danger Trump poses to constitutional order.
“People haven’t even heard of ‘Hang Mike Pence!’ because they watch Fox News,” Comstock said.