111 Republican former officials endorse Harris, say Trump is 'unfit to serve'

• More than 100 Republican former lawmakers and officials endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
• The group argued that former President Donald Trump, their own party's nominee, is "unfit to serve again."
• The group includes former Trump administration officials, as well as those who served under former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

More than 100 Republican former lawmakers and officials endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, while warning that their own party's candidate, former President Donald Trump, is "unfit to serve again."

In a letter shared by the Harris campaign Wednesday morning, the group of former national security and foreign policy officials said that despite their disagreements with the vice president's policies, "we believe that she possesses the essential qualities to serve as President and Donald Trump does not."

They decried Trump for sowing "daily chaos in government" during his first term in office, arguing that he put his personal interests before the country's and "violated his oath of office" by inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The group, which includes former Trump administration officials as well as those who served under former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, also warned of Trump's "susceptibility to flattery" by foreign leaders.

"He is unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust," they said in the letter, which The New York Times first reported earlier Wednesday.

The signatories include former CIA and FBI director William Webster, former director of national intelligence John Negroponte, and former U.S. trade representatives Carla Hills and Robert