GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt on Wednesday renounced his membership in the Republican Party because he feels the Party is now “fully the party of Trump.”
In a Twitter thread, Schmidt said his breaking point was President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border that resulted in the separation of children from their parents.
The former campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former President George W. Bush also made clear his disappointment in other GOP political leaders.
“On Ronald Reagan’s grave are these words. ‘I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life,’” Schmidt posted in another tweet. “He would be ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest while this corrupt government [e]stablishes internment camps for babies. Everyone of these complicit leaders will carry this shame through history. There legacies will be ones of well earned ignominy. They have disgraced their country and brought dishonor to the Party of Lincoln.”
Schmidt said the only way to do right by the country is to elect a Democratic majority to Congress in the upcoming 2018 midterms in November.
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05.18.2025