National Review Editor Rich Lowry Explains Why 22 Conservative Leaders Are Against Trump GOP Nomination
[Fox Nation] – Over 20 conservative leaders published a piece in the National Review urging other conservatives to speak out against Trump, an effort led by National Review editor Rich Lowry who spoke out on “The Kelly File” Thursday night.
“If you are truly are a conservative, you believe in ideas and principles…they are basically afterthoughts to Donald Trump,” Lowry said.
Here are the names of the conservative leaders trying to stop Trump:
- Thomas Sowell, economist.
- Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.
- Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze.
- Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney generals.
- Dana Loesch and Michael Medved, syndicated radio hosts.
- Cal Thomas and Mona Charen, syndicated columnists.
- William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.
- R. R. Reno, editor of First Things.
- John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary.
- Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs.
- Mark Helprin, novelist.
- Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor, National Review.
- Erick Erickson, founder of The Resurgent.
- David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth.
- Steven F. Hayward, author and presidential scholar.
- Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist.
- David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
- Katie Pavlich, editor of Townhall.com editor.
- Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Donald Trump immediately responded with a presser in Las Vegas and on Twitter:
National Review is a failing publication that has lost it’s way. It’s circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
Very few people read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize, but not how to lead.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
The late, great, William F. Buckley would be ashamed of what had happened to his prize, the dying National Review!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
