Dershowitz Says He'll Campaign Hard for Republicans

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Tuesday that he will actively campaign for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, despite his six-decade affiliation with the Democratic Party.

Democrats are repeatedly attacking President Donald Trump with extreme rhetoric. Former Vice President Kamala Harris called him a “fascist” during the 2024 campaign. Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett repeatedly compared him to “Hitler.” In an appearance on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Dershowitz said Democrats embrace political extremism. He also said they abandoned core constitutional principles, a shift that he said left him no choice but to walk away from the party he supported for more than six decades.

“They’re [Democrats] not succeeding in persuading the American people that they’re up to a leadership role, which is why, after me being a Democrat for 60 or more years, I am now going to campaign very hard for the Republicans to maintain control of the House and the Senate. Not because I love the Republican agenda,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. “It’s because I’m totally frightened if the Democrats were to gain control of either House. Who they would appoint as chair people? Who they would put in the position of inquisitors, and how they would deny rights to people, and how they would introduce a kind of McCarthyism that we haven’t seen since I was a college student in the 1950s?”

Dershowitz mentioned Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman as one of the few Democrats who still values principle and bipartisanship.

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