Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is once again crossing the aisle to oppose Donald Trump, joining other GOP figures in an endorsement of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
The Harris campaign on Sunday rolled out a “Republicans for Harris” program that organizers said would “further outreach efforts to the millions of Republican voters who continue to reject the chaos, division, and violence of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda.”
Among the effort’s initial backers is Weld, a Republican who spent one term and most of a second as Massachusetts governor in the 1990s after working as an assistant U.S. attorney general under President Ronald Reagan.
“Donald Trump belongs nowhere near the White House. With democracy hanging in the balance in this election, I’m standing with Kamala Harris to defeat Donald Trump and his attacks on our democratic institutions,” Weld said in a statement provided by the Harris campaign. “I look forward to working with the Republicans for Harris program to bring that message to the hundreds of thousands of moderate Republicans in battleground states who know Donald Trump doesn’t represent their beliefs in freedom, democracy, and the Constitution.”
Weld and others from his Republican wing regularly criticized Trump. In 2020, Weld briefly ran a long-shot Republican primary campaign to knock Trump off the ballot, and he announced before Election Day that he voted for Democrat Joe Biden (and Harris as vice president). In 2016, Weld was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee.
Massachusetts Democrats have also lined up in support of Harris after Biden, who had come under heavy criticism for his campaign performance, announced last month he would end his re-election bid and endorsed Harris.
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