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Former Trump White House property caput Stephanie Grisham volition talk astatine the Democratic National Convention this week successful Chicago, soon aft becoming 1 of the highest-profile Republican critics of erstwhile President Trump to backmost Vice President Harris.
Grisham said successful a connection that she would beryllium addressing this week's convention, saying she feels "very powerfully astir speaking out."
"While I don’t hold with Vice President Harris connected everything, I americium arrogant to beryllium supporting her due to the fact that I cognize she volition support our freedoms and correspond our federation with honesty and integrity," Grisham said.
Grisham, whose attendance was first reported by NBC News, served arsenic property caput to erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump and for a stint arsenic White House property secretary, though she ne'er held a azygous briefing with reporters. She resigned following the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol, and has since go an outspoken professional of the erstwhile president.
The erstwhile Trump adjutant volition beryllium 1 of respective Republican critics of the erstwhile president to look connected signifier successful Chicago.
“This week, the millions of Republicans and independents who person rejected Donald Trump volition spot that determination is simply a spot for them successful the Harris-Walz coalition," Austin Weatherford, the Harris campaign's manager of Republican engagement, said successful a statement. "We volition beryllium putting patriotic Republicans beforehand and halfway successful our normal programming to explain, successful their ain words, wherefore they are putting state archetypal and supporting Vice President Harris."
Republicans speaking astatine the DNC
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is besides expected to speak, arsenic is John Giles, the Republican politician of Mesa, Ariz. Both are Trump critics.
Additionally, Olivia Troye, a erstwhile homeland information adjutant to erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to speak astatine the Democratic convention, arsenic is erstwhile Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R). Both Troye and Duncan person go regular critics of Trump.
"With my location authorities of Georgia up for grabs, I’m honored to beryllium speaking astatine the Democratic National Convention and talk straight to my chap Republicans and voters successful the mediate who privation to determination past the Trump nightmare," Duncan said successful a statement.
In summation to those much high-profile names, the Harris run said determination would beryllium aggregate different Republican voices featured, including a video from erstwhile blimpish activistic Rich Logis and remarks from Kyle Sweetser, an Alabama Republican.
Democrats astatine the RNC
Republicans had a fistful of former Democrats talk astatine their normal successful Milwaukee, arsenic well.
Four specified individuals were among the "everyday Americans" who spoke astatine the Republican National Convention past period astir wherefore they were nary longer voting Democrat and alternatively backing Trump successful November.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), who changed parties successful 2019, besides spoke astatine the GOP convention.
