Former GOP Rep. Kinzinger Gives Clear Message To Nikki Haley Voters: 'It's Okay' To Vote For Biden

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Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who left Congress in 2022, encouraged supporters of Nikki Haley to vote for President Biden in November.

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00:00Yeah.

00:01Yeah, look, we haven't talked about specifics yet.

00:12This is all we've talked about is this process of endorsement.

00:15And, look, I'd be willing to do whatever is necessary to help ensure that Joe Biden

00:21wins, but on top of that, to tell the Republicans, the 20 percent, we'll call them

00:27Republicans, for lack of a better term, the 78,000, I think, Republicans in Georgia that

00:32voted against Donald Trump, even though Nikki Haley was out of the race.

00:37To tell those people, it's okay.

00:40We've become a country where our political stripes have become our identity.

00:45And it's really hard to shed your identity, because that's everything you believe about

00:49yourself.

00:50But our identity has to be, as I believe it was you, one of you two said, our identity

00:55has to be Americans.

00:57It was you.

00:58It has to be that we are Americans who defend democracy.

01:01So whatever the campaign is asking me, certainly I'd be open to doing it.

01:05I want to make sure that Republicans particularly understand you don't have to agree with

01:10everything Joe Biden says.

01:12You probably don't agree with everything Donald Trump says.

01:14And, by the way, you probably don't agree with everything your spouse says.

01:18But this is about defending the greatest country in the world.

01:20My grandfather stared down the Nazis in World War II.

01:24He went in just after Normandy.

01:27He could never talk about his experiences.

01:30I remember once at the Thanksgiving dinner table, I tried to talk to him and he just

01:33started crying.

01:34That's the extent of what I could get out of him.

01:37I think about what that generation and my grandfather and my generation in the post-911

01:42wars has given, literally the ultimate sacrifice for this country.

01:47It is not much of a sacrifice for Republicans to say, I'll vote Democratic this year to

01:53defend the very same cause.

01:56So whatever role that takes, I'll take it.

01:57Because to me, I've said this every two – and all you guys that follow politics,

02:01every two years it's the most important election of our lifetime.

02:05This actually is the most important election of our lifetime.

Former GOP Rep. Kinzinger Gives Clear Message To Nikki Haley Voters: 'It's Okay' To Vote For Biden

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