President Trump Picks Up Endorsement From Former Democrat Congressman

A former six-term Democrat congressman has endorsed President Trump in the 2024 election.

Former Rep. Peter Deutsch, who represented Florida’s 20th Congressional District from 1993-2005, announced his support for Trump on a campaign call commemorating the one-year mark of the October 7th attacks in Israel.

Deutsch criticized the Biden-Harris administration for making the world less safe.

“I feel very comfortable today publicly announcing that I’m endorsing Donald Trump to be reelected as president,” Deutsch said, according to The Hill.

Peter Deutsch, former Democratic congressman from Florida, endorses Trump https://t.co/j0jKAmsh6a

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From The Hill:

Deutsch said he was supportive of Trump’s stances on immigration policy and school choice, but that the “driving force for me to make this decision is what I believe is the most important factor in being president, which is really world peace.”

“And I think that Kamala Harris and the Harris-Biden administration in terms of what they have done and are doing … make the world a dramatically less safe place,” Deutsch added.

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The Trump campaign sought to go on offense over the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and set off a wider war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

Trump and his allies have argued President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken a weak position toward Iran, which backs Hamas, and have accused the Biden administration of failing to support Israel enough in its war against the Palestinian militant group.

On press call, former Rep. Peter Deutsch, a Democrat from Florida, endorses Trump for president, citing the former president’s tough stance on Iran and public support of Israel. pic.twitter.com/YTAkgZswJ1

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Jewish Insider reports:

The Biden-Harris administration “would make Neville Chamberlain proud in terms of how they’re reacting,” he said,” noting that the “driving force” behind his endorsement is “really world peace.”

“For what I believe is the most important job of the president of the United States, which is trying to retain peace in the world, there is an extraordinarily clear choice that I think every American, hopefully, will come to the same conclusion that I have, that President Trump should become the next president the United States,” Deutsch, who represented a South Florida congressional district, said.

While a growing number of Republicans have said they will back Harris in the general election, fewer high-profile Democrats have defected to the GOP, even as the Trump campaign has been courting Jewish voters who are disillusioned with the far left’s response to Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas and other Iran-backed proxy groups in the region.

Deutsch has previously expressed concerns with what he has called Trump’s “erratic nature,” but the former congressman has long been supportive of his Middle East policy achievements.

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