Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love just weeks before the presidential election to spread her message of political conversion.Ā ā€œAfterĀ Jan. 6, I did what in my family is considered unthinkable: I left theĀ Republican Party and joined the Democrat[ic] Party. And I left theĀ church.ā€

Barton-Gauss is part of a bus tour across the key battleground state hosted byĀ Republican Voters Against TrumpĀ (RVAT). The group teamed up withĀ The Bulwark, a political outlet founded byĀ Never Trump Republicans,Ā for a series of podcast tapings and other events highlighting Republicans and former Republicans supporting Vice PresidentĀ Kamala Harris. Targeting lifelong members of the GOP who harbor doubts about anotherĀ Donald Trump term is a central strategy of the Harris campaign. RVATā€™s organizers believe there are just enough of these right-leaning voters to push dead-heat swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin over the top for Democrats.


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    She reiterated that the nationā€™s founders ā€œnever intended for this country to be a theocracy.ā€

    If only christo-nationalists got this.

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      Iā€™m not even Christian anymore and Iā€™m embarrassed for them at how willfully, cartoonishly oblivious they are to the teachings they claim to want to enforce at the point of a gun.

      A real christo-nationalist fascist would put a gun against your head and tell you to welcome and assist people from foreign lands! Give away what you donā€™t need to the less fortunate! Pay your taxes! And love your fucking neighbors like my brown skinned, middle eastern messiah who I embrace as my superior wants, motherfucker!