‘Republicans’ who endorse Biden aren’t Republicans at all

In anticipation of what will likely be another major liberal media narrative during this election cycle, it must be said: Republicans who support President Joe Biden are not Republicans in any meaningful way.

This was an obnoxious media narrative in 2020, which saw Biden trot out several former Republicans at the Democratic National Convention so he could posture as a centrist for voters. Many of those Republicans who backed Biden admitted to being played, given that Biden never contacted them after his election win, an enlightening bout of incompetence that explains exactly why an agitator like former President Donald Trump managed to take over the GOP by railing against a failed old guard establishment.

But it is in liberal media’s interest to pretend that Republicans who back Biden and condemn the entire existing GOP are still Republicans because it feeds into the narrative that Biden is the grand uniter who is willing to cross the aisle. That is why the Hill has compiled a list of “prominent Republicans” who are backing Biden: former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, and former Trump staffer Sarah Matthews.

It is hard to be impressed by the list. Steele hasn’t worked in GOP politics since 2011 and works for MSNBC. Both Kinzinger and Duncan walked out of their jobs right into gigs at another anti-Republican network in CNN. Calling Matthews “prominent” after serving as deputy press secretary for seven months is laughable outside of the circles of Washington, D.C., politicos.

But, more importantly, the fact that they are supporting Biden means they aren’t meaningfully Republicans in any way other than their voter registration information. It is one thing to be a Republican who does not support Trump, a reckless faux conservative whose only real achievements in office came from appointing actual conservatives and letting them do their jobs while Trump talked a big game that he never backed up.

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It is entirely another thing to claim to be a Republican while supporting Biden, a pro-abortion up-to-birth, power-hungry climate zealot who panders to activists who want to ignore or pack the Supreme Court. Biden is in the pocket of the progressive wing of the party, and he does not even offer a return to “norms” as those obsessed with the Jan. 6 riot would want. The Democratic Party has been the party of election denialism since 2000, and Biden himself suggested in 2020 that he could only lose if the election were rigged.

Call them what you wish, but the “prominent Republicans” backing Biden simply are not Republicans in any meaningful way. (It is debatable whether they are even “prominent.”) “Republicans” who back Biden and spend their time shilling for Democrats don’t have much business acting like their words carry much weight with people outside of those who want to see Democrats win elections.