She said national security would be in danger under a Trump presidency and she encouraged all Republicans to support Clinton in November.
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Already this week, GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) have released statements distancing themselves from Trump after his remarks about Ghazala and Khizr Khan, the Muslim parents of a US soldier who died serving in Iraq.
The campaign credited last week’s Democratic National Convention with the boost in fundraising in July.
Hanna also criticised the Republican primary process, saying that the GOP primaries are created to attract only the party base but essentially ignore many women, Hispanics, LGBT community members, young people and many others.
Before publishing the message on Facebook, Whitman revealed her decision to The New York Times in an interview in which she promised to make a “substantial” donation to the Clinton campaign and will try to convince her Republican friends to follow suit.
Statistics website FiveThirtyEight significantly lowered Republican nominee Donald Trump’s prospects of winning the general election Tuesday, from 58 percent to 34 percent.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have routinely condemned Trump’s remarks on the campaign trail, including the nominee’s most recent attacks against the Gold Star Muslim-American Khan family.
Mr Trump responded by attacking the couple – who are called in the United States a “Gold Star” family, the term for those that have lost a close relative in war. In this cycle, she supported Gov. Chris Christie – who is among Trump’s most prominent backers.
After Trump clinched the GOP nomination, Whitman compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini at a private retreat hosted by 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
She closed calling on her fellow Republicans to join her in rejecting Trump, echoing a similar call made by President Obama earlier in the day. Capt Khan died in 2004 when Clinton was in the US Senate and five years before Obama became president.
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Many Republicans opposed to Mr Trump have stopped short of supporting Mrs Clinton, saying they would vote for a third candidate. He wrote on Twitter: “There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before”.
