Mesa, AZ Republican Mayor John Giles: I do not recognize my party. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle: You don’t owe a damn thing to that party. You don’t owe anything to a party that is out of touch and hell-bent on taking us backward. And by all means, you owe no loyalty to a candidate who is morally and ethically bankrupt. In the spirit of the great Senator John McCain, please join me in putting country over party and stopping Donald Trump.
John Giles is the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona since 2014 and served as a member of the Mesa City Council from 1996 to 2000. While speaking at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Glendale which attracted an estimated crowd of over 15,000 people, he said he now doesn’t “recognize” his party.
"My party has been taken over by extremists that are committed to forcing people in the center of the political spectrum out of the Party." the Republican said at the rally.
"So, I have something to say to those of us who are in the political middle: You don’t owe a damn thing to that political party,”
“In particular, you do not owe anything to a party that is out of touch and is hell-bent on taking our country backward. And by all means, you owe no displaced loyalty to a candidate that is morally and ethically bankrupt.”
The remarks from Giles, who has previously applauded Democratic President Joe Biden’s White House and once warned that Trump wouldn’t leave office if he were to win a second presidential term, arrives just days after the mayor called the current GOP ticket the "greatest threat to American values and institutions" that he’s seen in his life.
Giles is a co-chair of the Republicans for Harris campaign committee and, in an op-ed published last month, said the Republican Party has a “moral and ethical responsibility to restore faith in our democratic institutions.”
“I would say in the spirit of the great Sen. John McCain, please, please, please join me in putting country over party and stopping Donald Trump and protecting the rule of law, protecting our Constitution and protecting the democracy of this great country,” Giles told the Glendale crowd.
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