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More than 120 Republicans held a Zoom call Friday to discuss the breakaway group.

Dozens of former officials in the US want to combat growing extremism in the Republican Party, with starting a new political party one of the options on the table.

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One for his last time as President on January 20, 2021 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump, the first president in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successors inauguration, is expected to spend the final minutes of his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Getty Images) Last Friday, more than 120 people got together on a Zoom call to discuss the breakaway party, which, according ...

Roughly 120 GOP leaders joined a Zoom meeting Friday to discuss whether to create a breakaway anti-Trump party, Reuters reported.

Former GOP Officials Warn of Permanent Stain on Republicans if Trumps Not Held Accountable On 2/2/21 at 1:56 PM EST Two former Republican governors and two ex-officials from former President Donald Trumps administration released a statement along with other former GOP officials demanding that Republican senators hold Trump accountable for helping to incite the January 6 insurrection. Just 10 House Republicansaligned themselves with their Democratic colleagues in voting to impeach Trump a week a...

Ex-DHS chief attempts to skirt legal mess to keep Trump administration’s immigration policies in place Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf ratified his own policies and several controversial Trump immigration measures, in a last-ditch effort to overcome legal challenges that threatened his tenure. Wolf stepped down Monday amid legal turmoil over his authority to lead the department. Multiple courts have ruled that Wolf was unlawfully serving as the acting secretary, which woul...

Ex-DHS chief Chad Wolf ratifies policies in latest attempt to fix legal mess Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf ratified his own policies and several controversial Trump immigration measures, in a last-ditch effort to overcome legal challenges that threatened his tenure. Wolf stepped down Monday amid legal turmoil over his authority to lead the department, leaving Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor to serve as acting secretary in the final days of th...

Chad Wolf resigns as acting secretary of Homeland Security CNN 1/12/2021 By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN © Samuel Corum/Getty Images Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf speaks during a press conference on the actions taken by Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security agents in Portland during continued protests at the US Customs and Border Patrol headquarters on July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chad Wolf is resigning as the acting secretary of Home...

Top Democrats press for Trump’s immediate removal from office (Erin Schaff | The New York Times) Pro-Trump protesters storm the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on the same day as a joint session of Congress met to certify the electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election. President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election came to a dangerous head on Wednesday when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol following a rally in which Trump once ...