Independent U.S. presidential candidate Evan McMullin has named a Jewish running mate, Mindy Finn, JTA reported Tuesday.
She has worked on digital operations programs for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and also at Twitter heading up strategic partnerships in Washington, D.C., and specializing in business development, according to JTA.
McMullin, a CIA veteran and chief policy director of the House Republican conference, launched an independent presidential bid last month and was supported by key members of the Republican party’s anti-Donald Trump movement.
McMullin announced Finn as his running mate on October 6, although her name will not appear on several state ballots including California, Texas and Alabama since the announcement came too late for many filing deadlines.
Finn has opposed Trump since the primaries.
“I’m a lifelong Republican,” she wrote in January for the voices.neverTrump.com website. “But more importantly, I’m an American, a Mom, and though I don’t wear it on my sleeve, a committed Jew. When I see an authoritarian decide who are winners and losers as if he were picking race horses to bet on, habitually equate people to animals and mock their looks and mannerisms, I see the antithesis of leadership. When I see a man equate strength with an ability to erect tall buildings in their name while threatening to banish entire religions from our country, I don’t merely shake my head in disgust. I’m afraid.”
McMullin, 40, studied in Israel while an undergraduate at Brigham Young University as a David L. Boren Scholar with the Department of Defense’s National Security Education Program, through The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.
He called his studies in Israel “a perfect capstone to the traditional coursework I had done in Provo.”
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