For the first time in 128 years, the oldest College Republican chapter in the nation is rejecting the GOP presidential nominee.
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The Republican Club polled its members earlier this week and found that 10 percent of Harvard Republicans intend to support Trump for president, while an “overwhelming majority”-80 percent of polled club members-indicated they would not support the party nominee and 10 percent remained undecided”.
In a strongly worded statement, the Harvard Republican Club said: “Trump is a threat to the survival of the Republic”. “He is eschewing basic human decency”.
If enacted, Donald Trump’s platform would endanger our security both at home and overseas. He is looking to to pit neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, American against American.
“[He] is poisoning our country and our children”, the statement added. However, the release was indeed distributed by the Harvard Republican Club via posting to their official Facebook, Twitter, and Medium pages on 4 August 2016. “He speaks only in platitudes, about greatness, success, and winning”.
Donald Trump is coming to Detroit next week.
President Reagan called on us to maintain this, our shining city on a hill. He called on us to maintain liberty at home by upholding the democratic process and respecting our opponents.
He would be ashamed of Donald Trump.
The statement says that instead of campaigning for Trump, the group will focus on supporting the party’s House and Senate candidates, with the aim of preserving a Republican Congress to “protect against executive overreach regardless of who wins the election”.
In an email to Harvard Republicans on Thursday, Republican Club President Declan P. Garvey ’17 stressed to members that although the Harvard Republican Club officially opposes the nominee, the group will still help coordinate with members interested in campaigning for Trump.
He declined say whether he agreed or disagreed with that assessment, adding, “The experience was very good for a lot of people”.
De Tocqueville believed in the United States.
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On the trail, Trump tends to mention the university as an example of excellence in an attempt to make blunt points about the strength of America’s adversaries.
