Jennifer Horn, former head of New Hampshire’s Republican Party and former national board member of the Log Cabin Republicans, has cofounded and assumed a key managing role in a national committee called the “Lincoln Project” to defeat President Trump and congressional Republicans supporting him.
Horn cofounded the committee with other national GOP veterans including George T. Conway III, outspoken Trump critic and husband of presidential adviser Kelleyanne Conway.
Earlier in 2019, Horn made national news by resigning from her position on the Log Cabin Republican’s national board in protest of the LCR’s endorsement of President Trump in the Washington Post.
“There is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president,” Horn told the Washington Post. “It is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society.”
Notably among those the Lincoln Project will be watching carefully in 2020 is Maine Senator Susan Collins.
“It is my great hope, as this impeachment process unfolds, that [Senator Collins] will have the courage to do what is right, to stand up and put the country over party, to be a voice for the people over Donald Trump,” Horn told the Boston Globe this week.
“If that doesn’t happen,” Horn said to the Globe, “then, yes, unfortunately, Senator Collins becomes [a Lincoln Project target].”
Reports the Boston Globe:
The project is one of several small, but vocal, rebellions against Trump, who has taken over the national Republican Party apparatus and rarely experiences pushback from its members in Congress.
Collins, who has walked a tightrope through roiling partisan politics, has said little about how she intends to vote in the Senate’s expected impeachment trial of Trump. Long known as an independent thinker, Collins infuriated members of her party when she helped kill the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But she faced criticism from Democrats when she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Collins, in a statement, offered few clues about how she might vote in an impeachment trial. “I intend to make my decision on whether or not to convict President Trump on the basis of the evidence presented at the trial,” she said. “Threats from both the left and the right will have zero influence on that decision.” …
[T]he Lincoln Project, unveiled in a New York Times op-ed the day before the House impeached Trump, describes the president as a “bogus prophet,” whose actions threaten the Constitution and American way of life.
“We do not undertake this task lightly, nor from ideological preference,” said the op-ed authors and Lincoln Project cofounders, who include George T. Conway III, an attorney known as an outspoken Trump critic and husband of presidential adviser Kelleyanne Conway.
“Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain, but our shared fidelity to the Constitution dictates a common effort,” they wrote.
They envision persuading enough disaffected conservatives, Republicans, and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts to vote against Trump and his supporters “even if that means Democratic control of the Senate and an expanded Democratic majority in the House.”
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