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   Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split from   
   the G.O.P.   
   Miles Taylor, right, in 2019 on Capitol Hill, when he was chief of staff   
   at the Department of Homeland Security, with Kirstjen Nielsen, who was   
   homeland security secretary at the time.   
   Miles Taylor, right, in 2019 on Capitol Hill, when he was chief of staff   
   at the Department of Homeland Security, with Kirstjen Nielsen, who was   
   homeland security secretary at the time.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York   
   Times   
   Zach Montague   
      
   By Zach Montague   
      
       Published May 11, 2021Updated Nov. 7, 2021   
      
   More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are   
   preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party   
   if the Republican Party does not make certain changes, according to an   
   organizer of the effort.   
      
   The statement is expected to take aim at former President Donald J.   
   Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document   
   have deemed unconscionable.   
      
   “When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and   
   despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively   
   in defense of liberty and justice,” reads the preamble to the full   
   statement, which is expected to be released on Thursday.   
      
   The effort comes as House Republican leaders are expected on Wednesday to   
   oust Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming from their ranks because of her   
   outspoken criticism of Mr. Trump’s election lies.   
      
      
      
   “This is a first step,” said Miles Taylor, an organizer of the effort and   
   a former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official who   
   anonymously wrote a book condemning the Trump administration. In October,   
   Mr. Taylor acknowledged he was the author of both the book and a 2018 New   
   York Times Op-Ed article.   
      
   “This is us saying that a group of more than 100 prominent Republicans   
   think that the situation has gotten so dire with the Republican Party that   
   it is now time to seriously consider whether an alternative might be the   
   only option,” he said.   
      
      
      
   The list of people signing the statement includes former officials at both   
   the state and national level who once were governors, members of Congress,   
   ambassadors, cabinet secretaries, state legislators and Republican Party   
   chairmen, Mr. Taylor said.   
      
   Mr. Taylor declined to name the signers. Reuters reported earlier that the   
   former governors Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania and Christine Todd Whitman of   
   New Jersey will sign it, as will former Transportation Secretary Mary E.   
   Peters and former Representatives Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Barbara   
   Comstock of Virginia, Reid Ribble of Wisconsin and Mickey Edwards of   
   Oklahoma.   
      
   Mr. Taylor declined on Tuesday to reveal the specific changes that the   
   coalition was planning to demand of the Republican Party in its statement.   
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   “I’m still a Republican, but I’m hanging on by the skin of my teeth   
   because how quickly the party has divorced itself from truth and reason,”   
   Mr. Taylor said. “I’m one of those in the group that feels very strongly   
   that if we can’t get the G.O.P. back to a rational party that supports   
   free minds, free markets, and free people, I’m out and a lot of people are   
   coming with me.”   
      
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