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Another Neo-Con to Support Hillary Clinton

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    U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton | Photo: Reuters

Published 23 June 2016
Opinion

Another prominent Republican foreign policy hawk has switched to Clinton.

Robert Kagan, a prominent neoconservative will speak at a campaign fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, according to an exclusive report by Foreign Policy on Thursday.

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Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and worked as advisor for Senator John McCain’s Republican presidential campaign in 2008.

Kagan is part of the Republican party that seems intent on resisting the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, even to the point that they will back the Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

Kagan has publically stated that he would support Clinton over Trump in a general election.

"For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be," he wrote in the Washington Post in February.

With Trump's nomination, the Clinton campaign has begun to open their campaign to disillusioned Republican supporters.

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Clinton was recently endorsed by Republican Brent Scowcroft, who served as a national security adviser to Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford, and advised for Richard Nixon's and George W. Bush’s administrations.

Kagan’s speech at the Clinton fundraiser will reportedly focus on the U.S. relation with NATO and allies in Europe.

Kagan was an early promoter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and stated that he is “comfortable” with Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy.

“If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else,” Kagan said to the New York Times in 2014.

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