{"id":65539,"date":"2020-08-18T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/former-n-j-gov-christie-whitman-lifelong-republican-backs-biden-at-democratic-national-convention\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T08:21:11","slug":"former-n-j-gov-christie-whitman-lifelong-republican-backs-biden-at-democratic-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/former-n-j-gov-christie-whitman-lifelong-republican-backs-biden-at-democratic-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Former N.J. Gov. Christie Whitman, \u2018lifelong Republican,\u2018 backs Biden at Democratic National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><main aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article data-type=\"article\" id=\"arc-Z43VRG7R4ZCZ7FGPRHZIU2K6NE\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former N.J. Gov. Christie Whitman honors her late husband, John\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/resizer\/7vbMaK3bhYZkUB2_1ZUaIt9C2ig=\/450x0\/smart\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/advancelocal\/G5CI2IFUNNEDPG5FV6MZ3SIBIE.JPG\" ><\/img><\/p><figcaption>\n<p>Former Gov. Christie Whitman.<span>Patti Sapone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"VGZVZCFH2FH75GXYAWWWE6V7IU\">Former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, who once co-chaired a Republican convention and served in a Republican adminstration, spoke at the Democratic convention Monday night to endorse Joe Biden for president.<\/p>\n<p id=\"KR525IZPBBHIDMYT4L2CXXD5T4\">\u201cWhat am I doing here?\u201d said Whitman, whose parents were introduced by their parents at a Republican National Convention. \u201cI\u2019m a lifelong Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"CGX6XDESMRCQZCDIDTMN47INPM\">Whltman was the first of four Republicans to speak during the first night of the of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/these-political-conventions-will-be-like-no-others-heres-what-youll-see-and-whats-missing.html\">2020 Democratic National Convention<\/a> under the theme, \u201cWe the People Putting Country over Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"WJ5N7I7UDFGMZMKBUTPPOVSB44\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t about a Republican or Democrat,\u201d Whitman said. \u201cIt\u2019s about a person, a person decent enough, stable enough, strong enough to get our economy back on track, a person who can work with everyone, Democrats and Republicans, to get things done. Donald Trump isn\u2019t that person. Joe Biden is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"P4H2MCBPRBDNDNAWQ5H2LLUU4U\">Whitman\u2019s father, Webster Todd, served as state party chairman for a decade and was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her mother, Eleanor Todd, was a national committeewoman and a former vice chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n<p id=\"AV5RISGB4BHTVFHR5GQF4XFUCE\">Even as a kid, she pitched her tent in the GOP, meeting Eisenhower at age 6 and selling lemonade at age 14 to raise money for Richard Nixon\u2019s 1960 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RZCBRK62ZNGORI5B37NYVLCWKU\">She served two terms as governor, the only woman to hold the post in New Jersey, and campaigned around the country for fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p id=\"F6BDLVRZQJDT3ENUMMWACIYL5E\">That led to speculation about her becoming the GOP nominee for vice president in 1996.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Z6MK6E5HCBCMNP62JPUMZUNKHM\">Even Nixon raised that possibility. \u201cIn 1996, we should have a woman on the ticket. Has to be a governor &#8212; executive experience. Christie Whitman would be a real sleeper,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"IUSVJ63FLFFXPMFK7YLD62PA24\">The talk increased after Whitman was tapped to deliver the Republican response to President Bill Clinton\u2019s 1995 State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4AVTDPSBGNFXXE7G4TMBUEXPL4\">When 1996 rolled around, Whitman and Texas Gov. George W. Bush co-chaired the Republican convention in San Diego. Four years later, Whitman worked to make Bush president. She served in his administration as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p id=\"BQLQQO2PORFLLBNEVV2WNWDKLM\">Despite her Republican bonafides, Whitman has opposed Trump since the beginning, supporting Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and saying it was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovCTW\/status\/1223745527159721984\">mind boggling<\/a>\u201d that Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/former-gop-nj-governor-blasts-fellow-republicans-over-impeachment-vote.html\">voted to block witnesses<\/a> in the Senate trial after he became only the third president ever to be impeached by the House.<\/p>\n<p id=\"SD6AEGE3QBBGVNTJ7KA5KI3S5E\">State Republican Chairman Doug Steinhardt said Whitman should become a Democrat and offered to \u201cdonate the postage stamp\u201d to mail in her change of registration form.<\/p>\n<p id=\"AVWRKSGVRJAOVKSU657EXVVEQY\">\u201cPolitics is about making choices,\u201d Steinhardt said. \u201cGovernor Whitman made the choice to \u2018appear\u2019 at the Democratic National Convention, speaking on the same evening as Socialist Bernie Sanders. I don\u2019t begrudge her that right, after all, this is America.<\/p>\n<p id=\"BHOGKZL4BVDLXMX3MDN6DV6SQA\">\u201cBut, no one in America should ever think that Christie Whitman represents the values of the New Jersey Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"2UHO3KYB2FHSVCKFYNPHONOWKE\">Whitman was followed by business executive Meg Whitman, who had a prominent role in Mitt Romney\u2019s 2008 and 2012 GOP presidential campaigns; former Rep. Susan Molinari of New York, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4603899\/representative-susan-molinari-1996-republican-national-convention-keynote-speech\">1996 Republican convention keynote speaker<\/a>; and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran against Donald Trump for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/2016\/05\/why_is_kasich_still_in_the_2016_republican_preside.html\">2016 Republican presidential nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QKOU5TK7YNABXATOPM5PAM2QPU\">The speeches were an effort to woo disaffected Republicans and independent voters who disapprove of Trump and might be amenable to supporting Biden, the former vice president who campaigned as a more moderate alternative to far more progressive candidates such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who also was speaking Monday night.<\/p>\n<p id=\"GNIOLQWX6ZDQ7BY7YYGARMGQC4\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/documents\/monmouthpoll_us_081120.pdf\/\">Monmouth University poll <\/a>released earlier this month, 10% of Republicans and 59% of independents had an unfavorable view of the president.<\/p>\n<p id=\"P7MPGHLYQ5H47A35XXVO6MEUHY\"><i>Our journalism needs your support. 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Christie Todd Whitman, who once co-chaired a Republican convention and served in a Republican adminstration, spoke at the Democratic convention Monday night to endorse Joe Biden for president.\u201cWhat am I doing here?\u201d said Whitman, whose parents were introduced by their parents at a Republican National Convention. \u201cI\u2019m a lifelong&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[3279,703],"class_list":{"0":"post-65539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-christie","9":"tag-former"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former N.J. Gov. 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