Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson endorses Kamala Harris in 2024 Presidential Race
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who previously worked for Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election. According to a report by The Washington Post, Hutchinson announced her support for Harris during an appearance on MSNBC, citing the Vice President's character and commitment to upholding the rule of law as key factors in her decision.
Hutchinson, who gained national attention after testifying before the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol, revealed that she had long decided not to vote for Trump again. "I’ve known for quite a long time, number one, that I would never in my life vote for Donald Trump ever again," she told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. She added that her support for the Democratic ticket, now led by Harris, was solidified after watching Trump's choice of Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate.
Hutchinson’s endorsement aligns her with a growing list of Republicans backing Harris, including former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. She criticized Trump and Vance, stating, “They cannot be trusted with the Constitution. They cannot be trusted to uphold our rule of law, and they can’t be trusted to enact responsible policy.”
In response, Trump’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung defended the former president, claiming that Trump had unified the Republican Party and garnered broad support within his administration. However, The Washington Post reported that only 24 of Trump's 42 cabinet members had publicly endorsed his candidacy by August.
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'MCC-Modi's Code of Campaigning': Cong's dig at EC
New Delhi (PTI): Ahead of the assembly polls schedule announcement by the Election Commission, the Congress on Sunday took a swipe, saying since 2014 the MCC has come to stand for "Modi's Code of Campaigning which will be full of defamation, abuses, intimidation, fear-mongering, and spreading the virus of lies."
The opposition party also claimed that the poll schedule announcement "would have been given the go-ahead by the G2, since G1 would have completed this round of inaugurations, ribbon-cuttings, flag-offs, and launches".
The Congress frequently uses the term 'G2' to take swipes at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, who are both from Gujarat.
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In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, "The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the 2026 assembly elections at 4 PM today. It would have been given the go-ahead by the G2, since G1 would have completed this round of inaugurations, ribbon-cuttings, flag-offs, and launches."
"The Election Commission's Model Code of Conduct (MCC) will soon come into effect. But since 2014 this has come to stand for Modi's Code of Campaigning which will be full of defamation, abuses, intimidation, fear-mongering, and spreading the virus of lies," Ramesh said.
The MCC is a set of conventions agreed upon by all stakeholders during the elections. Its objective is to keep campaigning, polling and counting orderly, clean and peaceful and check any abuse of state machinery and finances by the party in power.
The Election Commission will announce dates for assembly polls in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Puducherry on Sunday evening.
The terms of these legislative assemblies are ending on different dates in May and June.
Final electoral rolls of the four states and the Union territory of Puducherry have been published as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list.
