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Alyssa Farah Griffin, a previous aide to Donald Trump, urged prominent Republicans to endorse a candidate other than the former president ahead of the November 2024 election, warning that the "window is closing" on stopping Trump from being reelected.
Since launching his 2024 bid, Trump has enjoyed a healthy lead over the crowded pool of candidates vying for the next GOP presidential nominee, despite skipping all three Republican primary debates. Trump's list of challengers has also started to shrink, with former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott dropping out of the race in recent weeks.
Speaking on ABC's The View Tuesday, Griffin, who once served as director of strategic communications for Trump's White House, said that Trump's agenda for 2024 "is scary enough already," telling her co-hosts, "It's time to wake up."
"I implore Tim Scott and Mike Pence, my friends that I think highly of, you need to endorse somebody other than Donald Trump, because the window is closing," she added.
On top of preliminary polling giving Trump a double-digit lead over other Republican candidates still in the running, recent polling shows the former president also holding an edge over President Joe Biden in a few key swing states next fall. According to a survey published Monday by Stack Data Strategy, Trump is predicted to win in the Electoral College 292 to 246, and was leading Biden in the four states that were decided by the closest margins in 2020, including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Griffin has been highly critical of her former boss since resigning from her position in December 2020, including recently telling her followers in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that she believed it was "Terrifying to think [Trump] may be POTUS again."
Her comments on Tuesday followed The View playing a clip of former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, in which Ellis told prosecutors investigating Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia that the former president said that he was "not going to leave" the White House even after losing to Biden. Ellis accepted a plea deal in October after being named a co-defendant in the sprawling racketeering indictment brought against Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
"Jenna Ellis was also continuing to lie about the election until this indictment came down, and she decided to take a plea deal," Griffin told her co-hosts Tuesday. "And listen, I'm glad it's happening, because it means I think she's going to prove to be a very important witness against Trump."
Newsweek sent an email to Trump's press team seeking comment on Tuesday.
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