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These Are All The People Still Vowing Never To Support Donald Trump

These Are All The People Still Vowing Never To Support Donald Trump
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media regarding donations to veterans foundations at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media regarding donations to veterans foundations at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

It’s been a rough couple of months for the #NeverTrump movement.

The group of Republican officials, operatives, and conservative intellectuals who vowed to prevent Donald Trump from obtaining the GOP nomination failed to do just that when he secured the necessary number of delegates to become his party’s standard bearer in November.

They have watched big critics of the brash businessman, like former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), capitulate and join the Trump cause. And they have failed to draft a credible independent candidate to challenge Trump and deny him the presidency in a matchup against Hillary Clinton.

But for all of the polls showing that much of the GOP electorate is backing Trump, most of the holdouts still staying true to their pledge.

Here’s a list of the most prominent members of the #NeverTrump movement, which The Huffington Post will update throughout the campaign:

Current/former GOP officials

Mitt Romney

George W. Bush

George H.W. Bush

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse

Rep. Carlos Curbelo

Former Sen. Norm Coleman

Former George W. Bush administration official Tony Fratto

Rep. Reid Ribble

Iowa State Sen. David Johnson

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk

Operatives/Groups

Tim Miller

Katie Packer

Kevin Madden

Patrick Ruffini

Stuart Stevens

Rick Wilson

Liz Mair

Club for Growth

Journalists/Pundits

Megyn Kelly

Glenn Beck

Erick Erickson

Guy Benson

David Brooks

Brent Bozell

Jonah Goldberg

Stephen Hayes

Matt Lewis

Katie Pavlich

Jennifer Rubin

Ben Shapiro

Bill Kristol

George Will

Mona Charen

Ben Domenech

Dana Loesch

Michael Medved

John Podhoretz

Charlie Sykes

David Frum

Jamie Weinstein

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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