Bush, McCain and Romney presidential staffers unite behind effort to elect Joe Biden

“We know Mitt and Joe share those same essential, presidential traits,” Romney staffers write in an open letter.

By MAX COHEN and MATTHEW CHOI

Support for Joe Biden's White House bid is growing among staffers of past presidential campaigns — Republican ones, that is.

Several dozen former staffers from Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) presidential campaign, the George W. Bush administration and the campaign and Senate staff of former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have signed on to an effort to elect Joe Biden. For the Romney and McCain staffers, they're working to elect the same man they tried to defeat in 2012 and 2008, respectively.

The latest initiative launched by Republicans eager to unseat their party’s incumbent president comes at a moment of division for the GOP. While many in the party have been steadfast in their support of President Donald Trump, vocal pockets of establishment Republicans have worked to defeat him. Those Republicans, in turn, have largely been met with contempt from the president and his base.

Romney in particular has become a staple punching bag at Trump campaign events after he voted earlier this year to convict the president on an article of impeachment. And Trump's feuds with McCain and the entire Bush family are long-running and well-documented.

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