Fmr. Pence Aide Troye on Bid for Congress as a Dem: I Had to Fight Stephen Miller and Kash Patel in Terms of Their Extremism on Certain Things

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TROYE: "Well, I would say this first off, I mean, I grew up in a conservative Catholic family. But over time, my politics did evolve on whether it was reproductive rights, LGBT rights. These are things that as I aged, I grew slowly apart from the Republican Party. But I‘ll say this in 2016, I did vote for Hillary Clinton, but I was a career intelligence officer. And I believe that national security, when you work in the community, should be nonpartisan and you should serve for the greater good. I love this country more than anything, and I wanted to continue to serve. And so when Donald Trump took office, that‘s what I did. And I served every day to the best of my ability. I, you know, I had some challenges. It wasn‘t easy. I found it pretty horrifying at times. And I had to fight people like Stephen Miller and Russell Vought and Kash Patel in terms of whether it was intelligence products or what they were doing in terms of their extremism and certain things, especially when it came to refugees or Afghan translators. There were a lot of things that I disagreed with. And ultimately, as you know, in 2020, I had a very public split where I decided to resign my entire career and take a stand for what I believe was right and for the country. And I have been very vocal since then as a Trump critic, especially after January 6th. And then I went on and campaigned for Kamala Harris and have been working to elect Democrats since then."