Republican Mayor Endorses Kamala Harris With Ominous Warning: 'I Will Hold Fast to What Is Good'

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Source: MEDIAite

Oct 25th, 2024, 5:23 pm


Oklahoma City’s Republican Mayor David Holt endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president this week in a scathing takedown of Donald Trump published in the Philadelphia Citizen.

Holt opened his op-ed with a quote from the bible, “‘Hold fast to what is good.’ — 1 Thessalonians 5:21.” He then went on to recall his long history in Republican politics, having first voted for George W. Bush and later working in his White House.

Holt goes on to argue that while he remains a Republican on policy he can’t support Trump based on character. “During this time period of my adult life that I am describing — across four presidential elections — I viewed policy as the differentiator between candidates. Issues like a strong national defense, limited and competent government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, and a free-market capitalist economy all weighed heavily on my vote. It is only in 2016, 2020 and 2024 that I have been forced to recognize that there are criteria inherently more important, criteria that I took for granted. These criteria could be thought of as the three Cs: CHARACTER, COMPETENCE and COMMITMENT to our form of government,” Holt wrote, adding:

The three Cs represent virtues, not policy positions. It is highly unlikely that the nominees of the two major political parties are going to hold the same policy positions, but it is entirely possible that they possess almost identical virtues. In fact, I realize now in retrospect that for the first four presidential elections of my adult life, I thought very little about these virtues. I simply took for granted that both leading candidates possessed them.

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